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by thetopher 899 days ago
I wonder what would happen if they published a list of all their users who are not currently under surveillance, or gave them a nice little icon. I feel like somebody tried this before, but my Google searches are coming up empty.
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Yes, the canary in the coal mine technique. As far as I know it's not illegal, but you only get a count of '1'.