On: Starlink's first constellation of direct-to-phone ...

[threeseed]

SpaceX has been building a spy network for the US government for a while now:

https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/musks-spacex-is-bui...

[jack_pp → threeseed]

Devil's advocate here but global spying isn't the same as surveillance state. For in country surveillance there's enough CCTV to not even need satellites

[protocolture → jack_pp]

Kind of is. All the five eyes have reciprocal agreements to trade data. If they cant legally watch you another nation probably can.

[kortilla → threeseed]

Spying on foreign countries for the US gov is not the same as spying on citizens of foreign countries and providing that information to their government