Reminds me of the "oopsie" by Reddit when they revealed Eglin Air Force Base as the "most addicted city."

More specifically, the Border Patrol are spying on reddit users. Why are they creating these reports themselves and not relying on other agencies to investigate? Does border patrol have jurisdiction over all national security matters?

>The spying is revealed in a January intelligence bulletin produced by the Border Patrol and leaked to me.

LOL Nobody should be shocked. I forgot who said it but someone said something to the tune of they don't need to wire tap because people openly post all over social media for everyone to see.

People see it as a way to share information with friends and family, meanwhile governments use it as a survaylance tool, always have been.

Tin foil hat time: DARPA wanted to create LifeLog to track everything about you. Now you post everything they wanted to know about you on Facebook.

/Rant

I wouldn't consider consuming public Reddit posts "spying."

The OSINT folks aren't technically spying but they're a lot closer to it than this.

This is OSINT (open-source intelligence) and isn't spying by any technical standard because it's speech in a public venue, there isn't a way to raise hell like with e.g. Snowden. Spying would be going into their DMs without a warrant (which is probably happening).

> Reddit post about “spreading awareness” as though it were the secret messages of al Qaeda

Extreme waste of tax dollars, though. I guess this is an important lesson in Big Brother and "having nothing to hide." They will put something worth hiding in your hands and swiftly arrest you.

They are spying on all of us. Not just Reddit users.

This was an inevitable step for a surveillance state. Technology will consolidate the position of the leaders while making organised resistance impossible.

Bummer.

That’s the real reason behind the push of digital ID. Any other reason you hear is just a straight up lie.

One of the mistaken beliefs of contemporary neofascists is that Pournelle's Iron Law only applies to bureaucracies. It would be much much less work for ICE to stop executing American citizens, stop abducting citizens and lawful immigrants, and stop keeping deportees in overcrowded and opaque concentration camps, and repair their own reputation by generally operating within the law like good faith public servants. But obviously doing that would not meet the needs of the expanding autocracy.

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