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Originally Posted by Fiat_Lux
Claiming that there is no precedent, is to ignore the years when J Edgar Hoover more or less ran the United States.
His thugs literally spared no expense, in finding people who possesed what he called "Un-American" material, getting them fired, and unemployable. Other thugs on his payroll fabricated evidence and bribed judges, so that their special targets would either be executed, or sentenced to jail.
If you'd prefer a more recent example, there was this woman whose first name was Monica. She gave this chap named Bill a blow job. During the subsequent inquiry, Walden Books turned over a list of every item she had purchased to the FBI, without a court order.
Reading through the Snowden Papers, it is obvious that the various three letter agencies are still creating profiles based upon what individuals read, and watch. Data that supplements their social network analysis.
DHS statements have implied that social network affiliations attract their attention, but what the individual reads, and watches, determines which of the lists the individual ends up on.
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McCarthy and Hoover did it! Of course, we do everything that McCarthy ever did, still to this day.
There's still a big leap between your public Facebook and library records being monitored and Amazon turning over every book file you ever touched. A large one that I'm not following you across.
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Originally Posted by Fiat_Lux
That future is today.
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Remind me again when Amazon has ever turned over their customer's orders? Remind me again when Amazon has ever obtained any information about a book that wasn't in their system? Remind me again how Amazon can subvert the trivially easy workarounds I listed in my post if what you say is true?