Re:Help make mass surveillance of entire populations unecono...
by Nifty3929 on Monday May 01, 2023 @10:43AM
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The difference between my own government and a foreign government is twofold:
1. It has always been illegal for a foreign state actor to surveil me, and in any case has no authority over me and can't put me in jail (as long as I'm not in their country).
2. My own government is legally entitled to surveil me and collect my personal data, and can indeed put me in jail.
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Re:Help make mass surveillance of entire populations unecono...
by ipaddr on Monday May 01, 2023 @12:04PM
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It is not illegal for a foreign state actor to surveil you. In fact governments sign agreements with other governments for them to surveil you while we surveil their citizens and trade information. This gets around the illegal act of government spying on it's own citizens.
Your government mass surveil's foreign citizens. But they can't mass surveil citizens legally.