• melsaskca@lemmy.ca
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    23 hours ago

    It’s kind of sad. He sacrificed his freedom to let us know about surveillance of the citizenry and we shrugged a little and accepted all the surveillance they could throw at us.

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        1 hour ago

        This is such a “phones bad” comment, but holy shit is it true. If you tell people why you don’t have WhatsApp and instagram or whatnot, they just look at you like you are the idiot. Yeah they are evil, steal and sell my data and rot my brain but have you seen this bot posting ai videos of cats?

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        7 hours ago

        Is the ‘/s’ because you do in fact have instagram installed on your phone?

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      13 hours ago

      There was one program that “spied” on Americans in his whole dump, and it was shut down after, so the opposite of what you said happened. (It collected all phone pen register data in the U.S.)