I’ve seen similar sentiment shared by people that follow privacy topics. It’s a bad take and you are minimizing the significance of the surveillance state being built.
There is a difference between ‘anyone’ can be watched and ‘everyone’ can be watched.
There is a difference between implementing laws that could be used to monitor anyone and implementing systems that will be able to monitor everyone very cheaply and easily.
I dont think Trump passed bad surveillance laws in the US. The worst of those are from Bush and Obama.
Trump inherited a mass surveillance apparatus. He didn’t build it.
I’ve seen similar sentiment shared by people that follow privacy topics. It’s a bad take and you are minimizing the significance of the surveillance state being built.
There is a difference between ‘anyone’ can be watched and ‘everyone’ can be watched.
There is a difference between implementing laws that could be used to monitor anyone and implementing systems that will be able to monitor everyone very cheaply and easily.
This is not the same as the patriot Act https://www.businessinsider.com/ice-palantir-new-technology-30-million-visa-overstays-self-deportation-2025-4
US has contracted out to Palentier for years. This isnt new.
I guess you’re new here, but we learned over 10 years ago that the NSA had a goal of targeting literally everyone.
What’s new is that the power is shifting from groups like the FBI and NSA to ICE.