sag@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 2 年前What is spying?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up186arrow-down12file-text
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minus-squareRedredme@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·2 年前In your car, your TV, your network, your dns… Everywhere.
minus-square1984@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-22 年前They are even part of paying for the massive underwater cables between continents that all internet traffic runs through. They took everything over. It’s the most extensive surveillance network in the world.
minus-squareSolarMech@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 年前Except that instead of an authoritarian government using it to totally control the learned populace, they are showing you ads. We’ve still got a way to go before 1984. If it did happen, you wouldn’t be able to discuss it.
minus-squareAustralianSimon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 年前To be fair, Google does release data to governments so I guess it’s both.
In your car, your TV, your network, your dns…
Everywhere.
They are even part of paying for the massive underwater cables between continents that all internet traffic runs through.
They took everything over.
It’s the most extensive surveillance network in the world.
Literally 1984.
Except that instead of an authoritarian government using it to totally control the learned populace, they are showing you ads.
We’ve still got a way to go before 1984. If it did happen, you wouldn’t be able to discuss it.
To be fair, Google does release data to governments so I guess it’s both.