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You're making my point for me. The system largely ignores a large majority of the people, who therefore don't care much about this issue to feel deterred from buying the relevant technology. Hence the enormous popularity of smartphones with GPS functionality and so forth: never getting lost >> government tracking everywhere you go, for most people.


The system isn't designed to watch everyone.

It's designed to watch anyone.


The technical apparatus is designed to watch everyone.

The legal apparatus is designed to watch anyone.


> The system largely ignores a large majority of the people

Have you been under a rock the last few years?




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