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Re:The Secretive Surveillance Wizards Helping ICE Wiretap Fa... by EA-3167 on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @12:30PM (#36508849)
That's not a very impressive article, and it seems like it's a practice that greatly predates modern communication infrastructure.
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Re:The Secretive Surveillance Wizards Helping ICE Wiretap Fa... by beambot on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @06:14PM (#36513394)
TLDR: Your rights are routinely violated in a "slippery slope" manner, but the methods and incidents cannot be rectified by the courts because it's hiding under a veneer of parallel construction. It's not like law enforcement is going to come out and say "We're violating your rights." Snowden revelations are a prominent example; Clearview's facial recognition database is another: "Clearview AI used nearly 1m times by US police"

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-65057011

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