SamuelRSmith on 19 March 2014
| kowenicki said: who didn't know this? every call and every text is monitored and recorded if certain trigger words are picked up. |
The problem comes when this tech gets handed off to other departments, such as the IRS, FBI, and DEA. It's already well-known that it's effectively impossible to lead a single day in a typical life without breaking some laws - usually breaking financial or traffic regulations.
Not that I'm saying that suddenly, people will be getting locked up all over the place. That's never the concern, the concern is when this is used by unscrupulous administrations to take down "political threats".
Think of many of the great revolutionary moments of humanity. How much harder would it have been for these ideas to come to fruition if the FBI (or equivalent) was able the nip it in the bud?
