> Am 22 Aug 16  11:10:14 schrob BOB ACKLEY an GERHARD STRANGAR zum Thema 
> 
> 
> BA> It should be noted that the US has been 'spying' on ALL other 
countries 
> BA> since before World War I.
> 
> But it used to be much harder to do it. Just think of what size photo 
cameras
> used to have or the problem to transmit data. Nowadays almost everyone is
> walking around with a camera and permanent wireless connections. Do they 
know
> what's happening inside their cellphones? Or inside their cars that come 
with
> camera systems, which officially assist the driver and an integrated 
internet
> connection? Even my pritner is saving data on the toner cartridges and 
the
> manufacturer would send me new ones if I sent n empty ones back, this is
> totally crazy.
> But there's hope, there's one man who fights for data privacy by not 
publishing
> his tax delcaration. :-)

You're confusing privacy with security.  There hasn't been any privacy in 
this country for years, if not decades.

While it's true that NSA is vacuuming up enough material to fill the 
Library of Congress every week or so, it's getting very much more 
difficult for them to break the encryption systems some folks are using.
Plus, increasing volumes of traffic are being sent over fiber lines rather 
than via satellite.  In effect, NSA is slowly going deaf.

Remember about ten years ago the big stink when Phil Zimmerman released 
PGP to the public?  The government wanted to throw him in jail for several 
lifetimes for doing that.  Note that any "approved" encryption systems 
have backdoors so the government can easily read whatever is being 
encryupted.

Insofar as all the surveillance cameras are concerned I seldom go where 
any of them are.  With regard to the explosions of camera-carrying drones, 
a while back some fellow blew one away with a shotgun - it was hovering 
maybe fifty feet above his yard.  The drone owner sued him for damages, I 
don't remember the outcome but I hope the drone owner lost.