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Mr Google Developer,

See here where you have it react and start phoning home when they say "Hey Google"? Right there, we're going to have you add some more terms; things like "jihad", "bomb", and a few others. We'll send you over the zip file of the full list later; it's only a few meg.

Yours Truly, TLA

Edit: I'm curious why the downvotes. It seems possible to me that the TLAs could have Google add more triggers for recording. If they did, we'd have no way of knowing. Sure, it's not likely, but it certainly seems possible.




Downvotes because the NSA isn't magic. We know how the legal boundaries of their power work from the Snowden leaks. It wouldn't be possible for them to force Google or whoever to do this.


The problem is that the Snowden leaks taught us that they completely ignore their legal boundaries on a regular basis.


That's not true at all. The key element of the Snowden leaks was that the legal boundaries were not where we expected them to be. The telephony metadata collection program, for example, was fully legal but has way wider impact that people considered to be right.


There's some muddy water between - What the written laws allow (or don't disallow) and - What the constitution allows

I would say the various TLAs have been working outside "the law" insofar as what the constitution allows.




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