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>>benwer+(OP)
Much like the “every device is tapped” heuristic of security, There’s a simple heuristic for data:

If you create data anywhere, assume some govt will eventually get a copy

In reality that data will sit there unreviewed in 99.9999% of cases.

Just hope you’re not in that 0.0001%

>>Andrew+Vw2
> If you create data anywhere, assume some govt will eventually get a copy

I have a hunch that we've been giving these agencies too much credit this whole time

Every time there's an unmitigated act of terror makes me think: the intelligence community is either malicious (a crazy rabbit hole to go down) or incompetent

And also there's the problem of searching, like finding a needle in an ocean

>>testac+Wq3
no one is manually searching through petabytes of data. it's all ingested into ML systems which spit out inferences and predictions about individuals. repeat with enough people, combine datasets, now you're generating increasingly accurate predictions about society at large. less privacy = more data = better training = more accurate predictions.