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Smilo

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4. it's already here

Reply to angrychair (Reply #3)

Fri Jul 17, 2026, 12:08 PM

Yesterday

and sadly many other countries around the world spy on the everyday citizen...... NSA in the US, GCHQ in the UK, CSIS in Canada, can intercept phone calls, text messages, and emails.
Add to this the tech giants Google, Meta, etc allowing access to data info for the government.
And then there are the flock cameras and face recognition software - think of all the stores you go in and are monitored, it's not just the stores.

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