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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In your car, your TV, your network, your dns.....

Everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

They are even part of paying for the massive underwater cables between continents that all internet traffic runs through.

They took everything over.

It's the most extensive surveillance network in the world.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Except that instead of an authoritarian government using it to totally control the learned populace, they are showing you ads.

We've still got a way to go before 1984. If it did happen, you wouldn't be able to discuss it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

To be fair, Google does release data to governments so I guess it's both.