[ExI] The Surveillance State Is Making a List, and You’re On It

[BillK]

On Mon, 9 Dec 2024 at 14:48, Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> This article makes a classic error: just because it is possible to do this to one individual at some cost, it assumes the government is doing this to everyone.  This assumption ignores the massive cost to do this to literally everyone in the United States of America, let alone the rest of the world.  Even the government sometimes does cost/benefit analyses and declines to implement stuff that's massively costly for not enough benefit to it; tracking everyone all of the time is one such thing.
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Oh, I agree that the government is only actively tracking 'people of
interest' via three-letter agencies, police and other government
departments.
But the tracking is going on, done by many organisations, mostly commercial.
So when you become a 'person of interest', the search and data collection
activity starts up.
Like finding the 5000 smartphones near the Capitol on January 6.

Just don't become a 'person of interest' or the tracking databases and lawfare
can be used to destroy you.

BillK