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Cool, cool cool cool. Nothing dystopian about that at all.
Like, they've been able to do this for 25 odd years.
There were gov data centers with thousands of petabytes when I was in college. Prism had the gov archiving every phone call and all internet traffic back in '08...
This is not news.
As soon as the quantum cryptography tech gets there, they'll start decrypting the signal and matrix chats you had yesterday.
Privacy is illusory and temporary.
The US government is temporary. Not our privacy.
The ~~stasi~~ government would never use my data against me. I've got nothing to hide. Hey I think I'll go buy this doadd for no reason at all no subliminal advertising