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Re:TikTok Ban Bill Is Patriot Act 2.0 Trojan Horse by baremetal on Thursday March 30, 2023 @07:04AM (#35370821)
The Stasi kept files on about 5.6 million people. The Stasi had 90,000 full-time employees who were assisted by 170,000 full-time unofficial collaborators (Inoffizielle Mitarbeiter); together these made up 1 in 63 (nearly 2%) of the entire East German population.[1]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_surveillance_in_East_Germ...

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Re:TikTok Ban Bill Is Patriot Act 2.0 Trojan Horse by lenkite on Sunday April 02, 2023 @07:53AM (#35409605)
Looks like Stasi were small peanuts compared to U.S. security agencies - which also have supercomputing at their fingers.
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