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> to inject themselves into the industrial surveillance complex. Haven't they been de-facto participating for decades?
by ska 6y ago
> to inject themselves into the industrial surveillance complex.
Haven't they been de-facto participating for decades?
- pessimizer 6y agoThey were the earliest, really, searching mail first to find information about birth control being shared and pornography (Comstock Act, 1873), then sedition. I assume that all of the first precedents for mass surveillance and data collection come from the USPS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comstock_laws https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comstock_laws