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> There's no NSA type surveillance with sophisticated machine learning algorithms going on

Hold up, do you know something that the rest of the world doesn't?

E: My bad, didn't remember this particular story. Although it hardly describes "sophisticated" machine learning https://theintercept.com/document/2015/05/08/skynet-courier/

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What do you think they use the nsa datacenter in Utah for? Real-time tracking of cell phone voice, text, and data, probably global. All the best cool deep learning advances seen in public are probably in play, a lot of awesomely powerful open source software has been released since Snowden. Who knows what's been snatched and classified for their private enjoyment.

Thank god for stringent oversight and constitutional protections, right?

I was only saying that tracking adjacent cellphones to find possible Covid carriers is low-tech. It's something that has been done since the 90s and Israel is definitely not some pioneer in the field. And it has not much to do with terrorism.

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