[alexgandy]

You’re right about the speed; but it doesn’t change the outcome. If you don’t want it to be associated with you, you simply can’t put it out there.

[janalsncm]

There are emergent effects of technologies getting cheaper and more accessible.

Surveillance was always possible but it was expensive because a person or two had to literally watch a suspect. So it was rare in practice and suspects had to be chosen carefully.

Mass surveillance is not new in the sense that surveillance was always possible. What is new is the scope of power it gives to those who can use it.

[rdevilla]

Yes, and then people wonder why you are a gaping hole in the social media surveillance dragnet with your absence. It took 12 years for me to make my first comment on this account.