• SillyDude@lemmy.zip
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    5 days ago

    If it has a microphone, it is always listening

    If it has a camera, it is always watching

    If it has a radio, it is always talking

    Every traffic light has a camera that feeds to a real time crime center where all your movements are tracked and logged.

    There are at least 2 balloons and a dozen KNOWN domestic surveillance satellites all with sub 10cm resolution.

    The US government knows everything everyone is doing, they just have to decide when revealing how they’re spying on everyone is worth catching someone. For now they just pass the info to local LEOs to preform pretext stops and take them for whatever it is. Just watch dashcam of any drug bust from the last 10 years. “You were swerving in your lane, oh look, 500000 fent pills.” Police are being fed illegally obtained intel from the feds.

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      5 days ago

      Yes to most of what you’re saying, but

      The US government knows everything everyone is doing

      No. That’s what they want you to think. It does know a lot more than we think, but nowhere near everything. It likely does know where your phones (aka you if you’re with it) are at all times, despite having GPS on or off. It also likely collects everything or most things you do online unless you’re really careful with Tor and what not, even then it’s not clear.

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      5 days ago

      What if I wrote the firmware for it? I don’t think it’s always listening then.