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I can't think of a reason why the government would want to mass-stalk the population and if it really worries you, then just turn your phone off or leave it at home.

Imagine if you will a genius deaf* ghost watching over the shoulder of every single person in a country 24/7 that works directly for the state. Many would agree this is the de facto scenario globally, for each separate state at least. Even in the previously exalted "free" states of Australia, New Zealand, America, Canada, England, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, and Sweden. As much as people in these countries, with the exception of US, may be forced to speculate how much their privacy has eroded, there are harsher regions where open speculation like that found in this very post do not occur, and thus people are made to assume the ghost and live under fear of the ghost, compelled to say nothing. In the U.S. we can speculate about more recent history, but we do have an extensive publicly documented history. Clipper chips where legal till the good guys broke it and forced 'them' to show their hand by strong arming tech giants to an unbelievable degree. If you don't believe me look up how much the courts were forcing yahoo to pay every day. Every single major tech vendor and financial institution was brought to trot by the stick and carrot of the NSA in the late noughties, In secret courts. Regardless of location stalking it's undeniable that the NSA had at one time access to a near complete communication web, as well as most transactions, plane tickets, and had access to tools to monitor the location of vehicles via cameras along interstates scanning license plates, as well as location via cell if needed. The current uncertainty has given me a bad disposition. These days the clipper chip is alive in spirit in the dedicated processor baked into modern processor dies. It has its own kernel and OS, meaning it can access ram (breaks cryptography by information gathered here without hacking your main OS) and networking hardware (can use your wifi without your main OS being hacked), sending the cryptographic key to 'them') Worst of all this spy system violates the free software agreement of its predecessor minux, failing to give credit where it's due and to release the source code under a free liscence. As others have added, there are private companies currently stalk people with phones around the grocery store with Bluetooth, google selling location data (NSA spent trillions on google data), or atleast storing it if you opt out of selling it (NSA obtained stored data through patriot act courts) combine this with the fact today/yesterday's digital world is/was utterly documented in a permanent record (everyone 24/7 over the shoulder like a ghost) and I think you can start to see how bad this sort of thing could be if people were in a place they actually had to worry about the government stalking them and popping them for nothing in the night. They are made to believe they're in a sea of cameras that recognize them and hot microphones, regardless of the truth. This was the true inspiration for Pokemon GO, in particular the CIA worked with Niantic to introduce that awful AR mode no one ever uses when catching Pokemon, because the true enemies of the CIA should really start to think they are in a see of camera owned by kids playing an app developed by that same CIA.

*While not using the microphone for zoom**, phone calls during certain eras, Skype calls during certain eras, etc, although it is 1984 ish in that at any time the ghost could gain the power of hearing through microphone access hacking, which the ghost totally knows how to do at this point, and I would argue that the ghost has been listening as much as it feels comfortable doing without another snoden
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