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Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S. Surveillance State (greenwald.substack.com)
submitted 2 days ago by Beep@lemmus.org to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Hacker News.

Just a decade after a global backlash was triggered by Snowden reporting on mass domestic surveillance, the state-corporate dragnet is stronger and more invasive than ever.

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[–] Ghostie@lemmy.zip 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Don’t have to force surveillance on people. They’ll literally pay money for it.

[–] fierysparrow89@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Imagine that 🤣

If anyone wonders why there are so many scams, it's easy! The average consumer is in general are short sighted, gullible and naive. Of course there will be plenty who will to exploit that.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

The conditions of capitalism make desperate people, or those after easy money, ripe for plunder. Ahh capitalism, you glorious old whore.