Re:France legalizes remote camera and microphone activation ...
by hejcloud on Thursday June 08, 2023 @10:23AM
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Before "everything digital" it was logistically barely possible to spy on 100%. At times of GDR a mayor of the Stasi had resources to maybe wire-tap 50 people. Letters can only be opened for X amount of people. Now they have the possibilities to do 100%. That's a big difference.
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Re:France legalizes remote camera and microphone activation ...
by donkeyd on Thursday June 08, 2023 @11:21AM
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> it was logistically barely possible to spy on 100%
It still is. LE barely has enough capacity to fight every criminal, let alone watch 100% of everything everyone does online. And if you look at how tough a time social media are having at content moderation it seems like tools to automate this well don't exist yet. Just look at stories like this:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/wp/2013/10/15/n...