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Re:Amazon Echo by agentultra on Thursday November 06, 2014 @03:40PM (#8569607)
> This is what I mean when I say most people don't feel culpable enough; there isn't anything sufficiently illegal going on in their lives that they perceive a significant government interest in intruding upon them in the first place.

I hear this refutation quite often. I find it typically comes from people in a place of privilege that the system largely ignores. I've read far too many accounts from people who are not Caucasian or are Muslim to believe that innocent people are not the targets of mass surveillance and do not notice its effects.

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Re:Amazon Echo by anigbrowl on Thursday November 06, 2014 @03:54PM (#8569696)
You're making my point for me. The system largely ignores a large majority of the people, who therefore don't care much about this issue to feel deterred from buying the relevant technology. Hence the enormous popularity of smartphones with GPS functionality and so forth: never getting lost >> government tracking everywhere you go, for most people.
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Re:Amazon Echo by CamperBob2 on Thursday November 06, 2014 @06:01PM (#8570357)
The system isn't designed to watch everyone.

It's designed to watch anyone.

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Re:Amazon Echo by xnull2guest on Friday November 07, 2014 @01:24AM (#8571422)
The technical apparatus is designed to watch everyone.

The legal apparatus is designed to watch anyone.

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Re:Amazon Echo by socceroos on Thursday November 06, 2014 @04:53PM (#8570036)
> The system largely ignores a large majority of the people

Have you been under a rock the last few years?

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