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15 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 16 October 2013 10:31AM

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Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 18 October 2013 08:32:48AM 0 points [-]

Mass surveillance is surveillance of the masses, not surveillance by the masses.

Surveillance by the masses makes surveillance of the masses trivially easy.

Comment author: Lumifer 18 October 2013 04:29:43PM 3 points [-]

Only if the masses conveniently store all their audio and video records in locations that you can easily and cheaply access.

Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 21 October 2013 05:05:25PM 2 points [-]

Which they/we currently do. Generally, accessing recording and data is easy compared with recording it in the first place.