[treebeard901]

Along with this, the ISPs, phones and services online all have a close relationship with those requesting access from law enforcement. Rarely would most put up a fight for you or anyone else if your information was requested.

There are numerous ways for LE to view and manipulate your online experiences. Your phone can be viewed remotely like remote desktop over your cell connection without your knowledge. Defeating all end to end encryption in the process.

LE is given access to your application APIs and can control the results you get from job searches, your YouTube recommended videos and even the advertisements you are served.

Now you may think there are protections and they need a warrant. They do not in many cases. Most important to understand is that LE only has to follow the law and the rules if they want to use information they collect against you in court. Most requests do not go this far. So it is wide open for your information.

Even getting your phone and getting into it is easier than ever. However once you get here odds are it will face scrutiny in court.

I am hopeful a lot of this will continue coming out and being verified more officially. We live in a surveillance state and most people need to be educated about it.

[hairball0]

This is very interesting. Would you be able to point to sources where we can learn more about these capabilities? A friend who is usually quite rational has lately been insisting this is happening to them (remote monitoring, harassment via search results and anything with an algorithmic feed). They haven't done anything wrong, but may have gotten on the wrong side of well-connected people, and are now concerned things could escalate (e.g. framing). If there were any indicators on their devices or elsewhere that they could look for, it could be helpful.