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Before "everything digital" it was logistically barely possible to spy on 100%. At times of GDR a mayor of the Stasi had resources to maybe wire-tap 50 people.

Before "everything digital" it was logistically barely possible to spy on 100%. At times of GDR a mayor of the Stasi had resources to maybe wire-tap 50 people. Letters can only be opened for X amount of people. Now they have the possibilities to do 100%. That's a big difference.

donkeyd 3y ago
> it was logistically barely possible to spy on 100% It still is. LE barely has enough capacity to fight every criminal, let alone watch 100% of everything everyone does online. And if you look at how tough a time social media are having at content moderation it seems like tools to automate this well don't exist yet. Just look at stories like this: https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/wp/2013/10/15/nsa-complains-that-it-has-access-to-too-much-data-actually/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/wp/2013/10/15/n...