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Your computer can spy on you. The web can spy on you. Your appliances can spy on you. Your car can spy on you. Your lightbulbs can spy on you. but you don't ne
by nathias 3y ago
Your computer can spy on you. The web can spy on you. Your appliances can spy on you. Your car can spy on you. Your lightbulbs can spy on you.
but you don't need tech for that,
a spy can spy on you
- krapp 3y agoI don't need a gun to kill people, I can use a knife, but the existence of knives doesn't negate the lethality of guns. Technology may not be necessary for surveillance but it is nonetheless used for surveillance. That other means besides technology can also be used for surveillance is irrelevant to the utility of technology for surveillance.
- nathias 3y agobut the multifunctionality of knives makes them conceptualized as tools not just murder weapons
- flagrant_taco 3y agoThese technologies all commodities spying, making it viable when you couldn't send a person to do the spying. I live in a rural area. The government would never bother to send someone to spy on me here, I can't imagine they suspect me of anything important enough to spend resources on me. But they can spy on me digitally for a very low cost and with little or no humna resources. Even better for them, they can spy on me digitally without cause and dump the data in storage in case they ever want to pull it up later.