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Of course they won't tell you as long as you're under suspicion. That's normal and makes perfect sense. But after the case is closed (and there is no accusatio
by still_grokking 5y ago
Of course they won't tell you as long as you're under suspicion. That's normal and makes perfect sense.
But after the case is closed (and there is no accusation) they should inform you so you could take legal steps to validate the rightfulness of such actions. If observation over a long time doesn't lead to accusation there is a strong pointer that this observation wasn't actually justified in the first place…
As it stands there is no possibility for those affected by state surveillance to ever prove any wrongdoing of the agencies that spied on them!
Now only a very small group in parliament can check cases after the fact. But they can't check mostly anything as this is I think 10 or so people against three agencies and hundreds of cases (if you take internet surveillance into account it's actually millions of cases…).