China does a lot more than the US government in terms of tracking and surveillance. Most tracking in the US is likely done via Google/Facebook/etc which makes it technically opt-in.
https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000008314175/chi...
https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000008314175/chi...
partially true but fodder for schizophrenics and compulsive obsessions.. A truer picture is harder to convey in a few sentences.. however as a US citizen I believe that an uneasy truce has been established via law in the USA since inception, between those casually referred to as "Law and Order" who genuinely believe that governance means record keeping and monitoring, and others who do not. Unfortunately for the "others" that includes genuinely bad actors who seek to use rights to evade detection, or those too stupid or simple to think about these things at all. Meanwhile, the Net has given magnificent, grandiose power to build and use surveillance, which they have done. ill wind blows
Warrants are at will? Nope.
https://policies.google.com/terms/information-requests
"In all cases: Issue a subpoena to compel disclosure of basic subscriber registration information and certain IP addresses
In criminal cases:
Get a court order to compel disclosure of non-content records, such as the To, From, CC, BCC, and Timestamp fields in emails
Get a search warrant to compel disclosure of the content of communications, such as email messages, documents, and photos"
Some 3rd parties require warrants. I tend to think that this is the rule rather than the exception.
Edward Snowden and the FISA court say hello.
Says NSA.