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It is paranoid for the average person to think they're sufficiently interesting to be a surveillance target.
by meepmorp 5y ago
It is paranoid for the average person to think they're sufficiently interesting to be a surveillance target.
- Karunamon 5y agoPassive surveillance being a thing means everyone reading this text is a target.
- sneak 5y agoEveryone in the global west (and China, and Russia) is subject to mass surveillance. That's documented fact, not paranoia.
- heavyset_go 5y agoWe aren't in the 1970's. It's cheap and easy to do dragnet surveillance, and it costs a fraction of a cent to store text communications and to perform speech-to-text on audio and video. You don't have to be interesting, you just need to exist to be caught up in the dragnet.