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ceejayoz 35 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at ...

There are other big differences in the other direction, though. The Stasi couldn't have dreamed of the manpower efficiency of modern surveillance.

lukan 35 days ago [–]

On the other hand, they had on average someone in every appartment block and every company directly reporting to them and doing on request other things. The human touch of spycraft. Nowdays spying on the population is automated.

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