'Horrifying' leak reveals ICE 'stalkers' have access to Americans' cell phone data

[Kid Berwyn]

17. You missed the point about wholesale government surveillance.

Government employs technologies and armies to surveil the public.

https://www.wired.com/story/the-wired-guide-to-protecting-yourself-from-government-surveillance/

That was unconstitutional until GW Bush and John Roberts made it OK.

As for the point:

Hannah Arendt: The Goal of Wholesale Surveillance



The goal of wholesale surveillance, as (Hannah) Arendt wrote in “The Origins of Totalitarianism,” is not, in the end, to discover crimes, “but to be on hand when the government decides to arrest a certain category of the population.” And because Americans’ emails, phone conversations, Web searches and geographical movements are recorded and stored in perpetuity in government databases, there will be more than enough “evidence” to seize us should the state deem it necessary. This information waits like a deadly virus inside government vaults to be turned against us. It does not matter how trivial or innocent that information is. In totalitarian states, justice, like truth, is irrelevant.

Chris Hedges, The Last Gasp of American Democracy