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> They don't want new powers, they want their old powers back Maybe you're too young to remember a time when no one carried a GPS in their pocket, most payment
by e0a74c 5y ago
> They don't want new powers, they want their old powers back
Maybe you're too young to remember a time when no one carried a GPS in their pocket, most payments were done in cash and only banks had CCTV cameras. I'd love to see states and companies take back the "powers" they had back then :)
- novok 5y agoTrue, but your phone calls, letters and packages were very easy to silently tap and interdict and were all controlled by central monopolies. Nobody encrypted anything, so raids on offices gave a lot juicy information in plain paper.
- bayindirh 5y agoNo, I'm not that young, but I've read enough history knowing that countries had a passing knowledge about the state of the population under their control. You don't need Stasi or NSA level of access to know the state of your citizens. Intelligence is an old craft. Insiders are old as well. However, speed of life and increase in population coupled with new communication methods invalidate these old methods. To protect their status quo, governments want their so-called vision back, and then some...