@mapachin@azonenberg@alan one of the express purposes of the NSA is to protect american business, we used NSA to spy on Airbus to advantage Boeing in airline bids in Europe (NSA proved that Airbus was breaking the law, but still)
@azonenberg@alan@mapachin I understand it doesn't personally affect you (or me) but just that I don't want it to exist by the time I get around to threatening some big business's profits and become interesting to them.
@sun@alan@mapachin Yeah but that also doesn't make me, a private individual in the US, at all interesting to them.
In my threat model US corps > foreign corps > foreign spooks > US spooks in terms of how likely they are to actually be actively spying on me in a manner detrimental to my interests.
@sun@alan@mapachin The point of the post I thought you were commenting on (sorry) was that I'm far more concerned about corp than gov surveillance.
My own country's spooks aren't (on paper) supposed to be spying on me. Foreign spooks probably don't care as I don't think I'm a national security threat to anyone.
But corps have a fiduciary duty to data mine everything they can learn about me to serve their bottom line. usually to my detriment.