Governmental surveillance is not about the government collecting the information you're sharing publicly and willingly; it's about collecting the information you don't think you're sharing at all, such as the online searches you do on search engines... or private emails or text messages... or the location of your mobile phone at any time.
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Laws and regulations are supposed to restrict the kind of surveillance governments do. In fact, theMikko Hypponen:
Foreigners like me have no privacy rights whatsoever. Yet we keep using U.S.-based services all theMikko Hypponen:
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Surveillance changes history. We know this through examples of corrupt presidents like Nixon.Mikko Hypponen:
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There is a difference between the stuff that people put online themselves, like pictures and their