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Furiouser and Furiouser's avatar

The scariest part of this is how incompetently big tech and little Kash deploy their information. Nancy Guthrie has been missing since Feb 1 and they are just now getting this video? A government that can subpoena your email 5 hours after you send a message decrying its inhumanity can’t get images from a Nest camera for 10 days?

No wonder Epstein didn’t worry about all the surveillance cameras he installed in his sex prisons.

Zyxomma's avatar

Ta, Marcie. My one and only social media account is bluesky, where I rarely post (apart from leading the Epstein chant). I do not miss Xitter at all. I have lost the ability to connect with a few people on Fakebook, but considering what it became, I could not care less.

Merrie Mac, Libelsländerin's avatar

Fourth amendment protection extends to your emails younger than 6 months old, and would need a warrant in order to be accessed. Anything older than 6 months only requires a subpoena because it is considered abandoned.

Leastways in normal times.

From a lawyer: https://youtu.be/pxmz84O3kzg?si=rIepDgAKLde7biEl

ElderlyLoudCatWomyn's avatar

According to DHS, they have deported 380,000 people, 7,000 of whom were gang members. Leaving aside the fact that these numbers are probably all lies anyhow, this works out to 1.84%. So DHS is bragging about the fact that less than 2% of the deportees are the worst of the worst. They're such stupid fucks.

My Erdos Number Is Five's avatar

Stupid fucks putting on performative theatre for other stupid fucks.

Goonemeritus's avatar

So you are saying I shouldn't buy the new Nest bathroom cam?

TheGreatAndPowerfulMormos!'s avatar

A reminder that the surveillance cameras in 1984 started out as luxury products.

TheGreatAndPowerfulMormos!'s avatar

We're going to have destroy the data centers

Dialectic.Detective's avatar

You think you've private lives, think nothing of the kind

There is no true escape, I'm watching all the time

I'm made of metal

My circuits gleam

I am perpetual

I keep the country clean

- Electric Eye (1982), Judas Priest

eo's avatar

Good one. Another good one is Tom Paxton's "Mr. Blue":

Be careful, Mr. Blue, this phase you're going through

Can lead you nowhere else but to disaster

Excuse us while we grin, you've worn our patience thin

It's time we showed you who's your master

What will it take, to whip you into line?

A broken heart? A broken head?

It can be arranged. It can be arranged ....

ludus's avatar

Click link to read post about creepy lawless surveillance and get: "sign in or create an account to read". uhm ... no.

Lot⁴⁹'s avatar

Thinking, "Well, they won't go after me because they have so much data," isn't very comforting.

Don't use Gmail. If you have an Android phone, log out of Google, and don't let them "back up" your phone. Use the Vivaldi browser and Duckduckgo.

Pope Scipio Newburyporticus's avatar

Um none of those are email services. If you want security try Proton Mail.

Lot⁴⁹'s avatar

Right! Should've mentioned Fastmail, which I use. Works great.

tehbaddr's avatar

"We are currently clean on OPSEC" - HicSeth

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71HisnkDEIL.jpg

Richard S's avatar

Sadly, it's becoming well-nigh impossible to avoid Big G.

The non-profit educational group I belong to (the SCA) likes doing all its online business via GMail.....

Pope Scipio Newburyporticus's avatar

That's a very fancy way to say that you dress up in medieval garb and smack each other with sticks in the woods. 🙂

Hank Napkin's avatar

All our cameras are dummies. The microphones however...

Thank You For Trying's avatar

My car got broken into last year. My neighbor was the one who yelled to chase the person off. I was so grateful that I baked him cookies instead of turning my entire neighborhood into a mini-surveillance state with weird fear camera.

Know your neighbors. Fuck a spycam.

Snarfyguy's avatar

"End the Resistance."

Why do I hear this in a Darth Vader voice?

gallbladder's avatar

Him or Sheev Palpatine.