On 2019-12-05, Joe <j...@jretrading.com> wrote: > > Because only in the last decade or so has it been possible for a > government or company to read and listen to every single word of > correspondence of every single person in their country, without any > judicial oversight or probable cause. If it had been possible earlier > than that, it would have been done. >
You are confusing the electronic harvesting of raw data by inanimate machines and the human intentionality required for the interpretation of written and audible material. -- “The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.” "Speak, Memory," Vladimir Nabokov