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Re:Bugged Planet by tpmx on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @01:23PM (#21923149)
> There are precious few countries where surveillance is only used to catch murderers and kidnappers.

I think that number is down to ~0 after 9/11. The more relevant distiction nowadays is between countries that are performing mass surveillance and those that are not.

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Re:Bugged Planet by NateEag on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @01:32PM (#21923226)
How could you ever know that a country is not performing mass surveillance?

It just takes one leak to show that one does, but confirming the opposite seems impossible to me. You'd have to know everything about every detail of the whole government.

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Re:Bugged Planet by tpmx on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @03:14PM (#21924335)
The technically competent countries are (probably) doing it. That's the best I can say, honestly.
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