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    I mean…is that not assumed to be the default? Cell phone surveillance is pretty much just business as usual in this country is it not?

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      1312 days ago

      This is illegal without a warrant. And judges have been denying broad sweeping warrants that would cover such situations.

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        322 hours ago

        The US Government only gives a shit when they are caught. You’d have a damn hard time trying to prove mass surveillance to a court even though we all know they do it.

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          It honestly doesn’t care about “illegal” much either 😅

          Edit: for themselves of course! Everyone else…

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          never did. us three-letter-agencies have been buying data to get around pesky laws for a while now.

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        pardon me, sir, but this is illegal withou-

        click

        hey! Uncuff me! This is illegal!

        car door shuts

        Hey! Let me out of this car!

        vroooooom

        Where are we going!? You can’t take me to jail!

        arrives at jail

        Dear family, they call this place prison, it looks like prison, and I’ve been issued what they’re calling a “lawyer”, but impossible as that may be considering they didn’t have a warrant, I can only deduce that I’ve been kidnapped by a vigilante to a remote location pretending to be a prison!

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        332 days ago

        Pretty sure this kind of thing has been illegal since before Edward Snowden became a whistleblower, tbh. The US Government hasn’t cared about people’s privacy and the laws surrounding it for decades.

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          32 days ago

          It’s sad that people like you completely giving up are exactly why we are in an authoritarian slide.

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                I think they don’t give a fuck if they’re violating the law. Why don’t you get tf out of here with your self righteous bullshit kiddo.

                Fucking infighting bullshit.

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                  11 day ago

                  Wow, you really quickly forgot how you started this of with a condescending apathetic statement.

                  It’s endearing that you think that even matters anymore