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Re:The Problem with Perceptual Hashes by mrtksn on Saturday August 07, 2021 @02:32AM (#28096291)
The difference is that previously you had to be targeted and intercepted. Thinking that someone is listening was something that paranoid people would do.

Now your device is actually watching you and reporting you. Today only for child porn but there’s no technical reason of it not being extended to anything.

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Re:The Problem with Perceptual Hashes by HWR_14 on Saturday August 07, 2021 @12:55PM (#28100019)
> The difference is that previously you had to be targeted and intercepted

This is also true, to some degree. I believe all calls to the USSR were monitored, for instance. But the dragnet is thrown much further these days.

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