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>>WaitWa+(OP)
Picture the scenes from the Man in the High Castle, where rows of listeners are monitoring people's phone conversations to make sure they can identify people who oppose their rule. That is Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, and YouTube, right now.

Except they can now monitor a lot more than just phone calls. And they have the infinite memory of data storage so they can look you up later instead of wasting live listeners on you now. And they have real-time automated tools to pop up messages in your face to influence you, or let you report other people for wrongthink.

Employees of these organizations should be raising Cain about it. If they saw it on TV they'd be aghast. But hmmm, in real life they don't seem to mind.

>>MarkLo+FB
It is even worse. Regular intelligence services don't have resources to listen and interpret every phone call or human interaction.

Now the last thing needed is to require every person to carry a phone with them all the time with assumption that one that does not carry is suspicious.