The reassuring thing about any government or private agency is that if they have access to everything (like detailed satellite pictures) they need specific purposes to look at detailed data as there are not enough people in the world to review all of the data, photos, etc. collected. The world is too big to review the whole world.
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I hate to tell you just how wrong you are. Someone still has to want to know something, but the days of people staring at photos is going away. We can detect new roads, buildings, changes in crop density, and the actual health of crops, oil tank levels, track ships at sea with and without transponders on, etc. We do it every day.
Want to track buildings in the thousand oaks fire area? Orange is the burn zone, yellow are individual buildings.
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Yes that makes sense. But, for example, when the government collects phone data, it's mostly meta data. What number called what number. Not conversations. And even if they collected conversations they have no way of quickly deciphering what they're looking for without pinpointing some selection of that data. And that's with voice to text rendering. Too much data.