

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.





right, but that’s less of a problem