Snowdens leaks revealed that the NSA was collecting basically all the fucking data in the world. The speculation then was that, unless they were looking into you already (in which case, in say an equivalent situation in the 60s, your house would be bugged anyway), then no-one would ever see that data - so effectively nothing had really changed. As the user below points out, with AI they will now certainly be pre-emptively selecting people to watch from the data based on their characteristics. It would be impossible for humans to sort through so much data to do that, buts it’s easy for AI. So if you post all day about redacting Henry Kissinger on hexbear, you might want to turn your computer off before you get undressed.
Snowdens leaks revealed that the NSA was collecting basically all the fucking data in the world. The speculation then was that, unless they were looking into you already (in which case, in say an equivalent situation in the 60s, your house would be bugged anyway), then no-one would ever see that data - so effectively nothing had really changed. As the user below points out, with AI they will now certainly be pre-emptively selecting people to watch from the data based on their characteristics. It would be impossible for humans to sort through so much data to do that, buts it’s easy for AI. So if you post all day about redacting Henry Kissinger on hexbear, you might want to turn your computer off before you get undressed.