Comment by brandon272

> I thought we were making progress in the anti-surveillance privacy narrative, but this says otherwise.

I think we are perhaps the lowest point ever in terms of anti-surveillance efforts. There seems to be bipartisan effort among many (most?) western governments that the government should have unfettered access to all data, regardless of any reasonable expectation of privacy.

Encryption seems barely tolerated these days. Governments are insisting on backdoors, they are making it illegal in some cases for companies to even discuss what is going on or that monitoring is happening.

We barely know what is going on with the programs and efforts that get leaked to the media, much less the programs that operate in total secret.