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  • 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.





  • Do you have a good reason to believe authorities might be monitoring your phone specifically out of the hundreds of millions of people the could pick from?

    they don’t have to monitor any specific phone. that would be like, collecting the info but throwing away most of it. if they are doing something, they are monitoring at the provider level.

    They don’t have the capacity to monitor every single phone or conversation.

    it does not take much processing power to search in SMS messages as they are sent.

    phone calls would be different, but unless it’s volte, processing is easier than transmission, because of the very low bitrate.

    If you just go about your life minding your business

    “minding your business” means not protesting to leave a foreign country in peace. from a point of view, it’s not our business.