With the insane volumes of data collected by the TLAs, the problem is always relevance. If they have any tool sensitive enough to flag a threat, the false-positive rate is likely to be astronomical. So it doesn’t really meet its claimed purpose, but it’s really effective as an indiscrimate tool for oppression.
Keep in mind that Lemmy isn’t safe either. Anyone with their own instance can see your full comment, post, and voting history even if you’ve deleted it, and your IP address.
It’s basically a guarantee that the feds have their own instance capturing everything.
That shit was happening before GenAI was a thing. The NSA captures every bit of web traffic in the country.
The only thing that’s surprising is that they weren’t already sharing this information across agencies.
In this case they “captured it” by being the people it was sent to.
Spooky shit fr
With the insane volumes of data collected by the TLAs, the problem is always relevance. If they have any tool sensitive enough to flag a threat, the false-positive rate is likely to be astronomical. So it doesn’t really meet its claimed purpose, but it’s really effective as an indiscrimate tool for oppression.
This is the background I need, thank you.
It’s pertinent to assume nothing is safe, however it’s ever more important to exercise and defend our right to free speech.
Keep in mind that Lemmy isn’t safe either. Anyone with their own instance can see your full comment, post, and voting history even if you’ve deleted it, and your IP address.
It’s basically a guarantee that the feds have their own instance capturing everything.
Yeah, I sold that over 20 years ago