Have you guys also noticed this? I’m not talking about “Oh my family isn’t privacy conscious” I honestly get that for ur average moms and pops, they don’t know any better.

the problem is with how these big tech companies effectively poisoned the everyday Joe to think that handing over ur data like a good boy is the norm and breaking out is “weird” and “too much”, this blame also goes on Hollywood.

Yesterday my friend called me " Mr robot" for just taking my privacy seriously I thought it was funny.

some people also fired their single neuron and told me “People only do this when they have something to hide”

These remarks that I face from time to time really highlights the mentality of the general society where if you break out of the norm, even if it doesn’t harm them, they would find a way to make off handed remarks about it almost like they’re dissatisfied that you’re fighting.

  • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    2 days ago

    Right now in the US, the number of active LE officers is outnumbered 400 to 1. Meaning each police officer/FBI agent would have to keep an eye on 400 people at a time to get to the kind of surveillance state

    that’s silly. nobody is watching your messages scroll by on a screen. its mostly automated.

    They do monitor individual “Profiles” when they have justifiable reasons for it. Monitoring aprofile can include everything, phone monitoring, social media monitoring, physical monitoring. But again, you must have been cause of serious worry for them to start such investigations on you.

    like being a “terrorist”: a peaceful protester for peace in Palestine. they are detaining people for attending those protests.

    but we are still very very far for that Orwell’s 1984 type of surveillance, merely from a technology and capacity standpoint.

    we already have the technological capacity.

    • Therms45@europe.pub
      1·
      2 days ago

      Again. Reading a message is just a minuscule, and not even the most important part, of the process of surveillance. The infrastructure necessary to implement something like this is a lot larger than just the software and hardware necessary to automate data collection.

      And no, that infrastructure MOST DEFINITELY DOES NOT have the capacity to monitor everyone or even everyone who attended a protest. This is just a fact. The courts themselves would not have enough capacity.

      Why do they not arrest every single participant then? You think everyone that doesn’t get arrested is because they use signal and all of those that got arrested used WhatsApp? That’s just disingenuous.

      The technology exists, infrastructure not yet.