Comment by ozgung
20 hours ago
You all want to feel safe just because you are a US citizen but this is a mass surveillance technology on global level. It’s nothing like some secret agent spying on a KGB asset in Berlin like in the old days. We are writing on HN, are we on American soil? Not really. No one asked me for passport. This is not a “domestic” space. Everything here can be automatically and legally spied on. And this applies to everything digital. Spy bots don’t have the concept of “domestic” or any way to identify citizenship. And if Google or TikTok can spy on you, your government and ChatGPT/Grok’s agentic secret agents can definitely spy on you. I’m sure they have better loopholes than the Eyes thing, if they really need one.
Spying pertains to actual assets, not cyberspace. They can seize servers and tap fiber links. They can issue subpoenas against people and companies. They can arrest people. They can't spy on the color blue, or the concept of Hacker News. They can spy on the Hacker News server, Y Combinator, or dang.