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Old Apr 16, 2025, 06:41 AM
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The federal government in the US is technically prohibited from "spying" on an average American citizen by law. Does that meant they don't do it in some manner to gather "meta data" on people, especially when targeting a suspected criminal that you're only marginally associated with? I'm pretty certain they're looking at such data with coarse filters, looking for patterns and associations with criminals.

That said, I spend zero seconds of my day worrying about such things because I know the amount of data, even with AI's assistance, is overwhelming. They (government bureaucrats) don't care about the average citizens' life and Google lookups.
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