The bill is in real trouble when even Google, a company that built its empire on knowing everything about you, thinks a government's surveillance plan goes too far.
You know something goes too far when Google, and Meta speak out against it.
These guys. You can’t really call them the OG surveilence agency. That goes back 1000’s of years. But the idea of the quote is this. If they saw the pure scale of modern surveilence… The enormity of it. Even they would say “nah come on be reasonable guys.” Like Google here with C-22.
Sounds like somebody skipped their history class, back in the 30s you would’ve had Gestapo or Abwehr because Germany was fascist at the time.
The Ministry for State Security (German: Ministerium für Staatssicherheit, pronounced [minɪsˈteːʁiʊm fyːɐ̯ ˈʃtaːtsˌzɪçɐhaɪt]; abbreviated MfS), commonly known as the Stasi (pronounced [ˈʃtaːziː] ⓘ, an abbreviation of Staatssicherheit), was the intelligence service and secret police of East Germany (the German Democratic Republic or GDR) from 1950 to 1990.
These guys. You can’t really call them the OG surveilence agency. That goes back 1000’s of years. But the idea of the quote is this. If they saw the pure scale of modern surveilence… The enormity of it. Even they would say “nah come on be reasonable guys.” Like Google here with C-22.
Sounds like somebody skipped their history class, back in the 30s you would’ve had Gestapo or Abwehr because Germany was fascist at the time.
Yes, I got the date wrong from memory. Doesn’t change the point tho.
It does illustrate how the whole moral high ground the west claimed over the Soviet bloc was always just a veneer.