<story><title>FTC: Vast Surveillance of Users by Social Media and Video Streaming Companies</title><url>https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/09/ftc-staff-report-finds-large-social-media-video-streaming-companies-have-engaged-vast-surveillance</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>digging</author><text>&amp;gt; and people are ok with that&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve seen no evidence of this. People mostly either don&amp;#x27;t understand it for feel powerless against it.</text></item><item><author>orthecreedence</author><text>Snowden pointed and everyone looked at his finger. It was a huge shame, but a cultural sign that the US is descending into a surveillance hell hole &lt;i&gt;and people are ok with that&lt;/i&gt;. As someone who was (and still is) vehemently against PRISM and NSLs and all that, it was hard to come to terms with. I&amp;#x27;m going to keep building things that circumvent the &amp;quot;empire&amp;quot; and hope people start caring eventually.</text></item><item><author>flycaliguy</author><text>I think Snowden was bang on when in 2013 he warned us of a last chance to fight for some basic digital privacy rights. I think there was a cultural window there which has now closed.</text></item><item><author>vundercind</author><text>Behind the ball by 15 years to start taking this seriously and beginning to &lt;i&gt;think about&lt;/i&gt; pushing back, but better late than never.&lt;p&gt;Next please reign in the CRAs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dylan604</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s also a vast amount of people that were just too young to be aware of Snowden&amp;#x27;s revelations. These people are now primarily on TikTok what not, and I doubt there&amp;#x27;s much in those feeds to bring them to light while directly feeding the beast of data hoarding.</text></comment>
<story><title>FTC: Vast Surveillance of Users by Social Media and Video Streaming Companies</title><url>https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/09/ftc-staff-report-finds-large-social-media-video-streaming-companies-have-engaged-vast-surveillance</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>digging</author><text>&amp;gt; and people are ok with that&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve seen no evidence of this. People mostly either don&amp;#x27;t understand it for feel powerless against it.</text></item><item><author>orthecreedence</author><text>Snowden pointed and everyone looked at his finger. It was a huge shame, but a cultural sign that the US is descending into a surveillance hell hole &lt;i&gt;and people are ok with that&lt;/i&gt;. As someone who was (and still is) vehemently against PRISM and NSLs and all that, it was hard to come to terms with. I&amp;#x27;m going to keep building things that circumvent the &amp;quot;empire&amp;quot; and hope people start caring eventually.</text></item><item><author>flycaliguy</author><text>I think Snowden was bang on when in 2013 he warned us of a last chance to fight for some basic digital privacy rights. I think there was a cultural window there which has now closed.</text></item><item><author>vundercind</author><text>Behind the ball by 15 years to start taking this seriously and beginning to &lt;i&gt;think about&lt;/i&gt; pushing back, but better late than never.&lt;p&gt;Next please reign in the CRAs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>davisr</author><text>&amp;gt; I&amp;#x27;ve seen no evidence of this&lt;p&gt;Over 99% of Americans point a camera at themselves while they take a shit.</text></comment>