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Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S. Surveillance State (greenwald.substack.com)
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Hacker News.

Just a decade after a global backlash was triggered by Snowden reporting on mass domestic surveillance, the state-corporate dragnet is stronger and more invasive than ever.

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[โ€“] U7826391786239@lemmy.zip 115 points 5 days ago (1 children)

the thing 1984 got wrong is that people are willingly buying their own (multiple) telescreens and happily submitting their entire life to the party

[โ€“] valek879@sh.itjust.works 50 points 5 days ago

We didn't see how we got to 1984. We just see one person living with consequences of what society has become. We're building our own 1984 right now!