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They are already subpoena'ing alexa and Google home recordings, Android and iPhone location data, cell tower pings etc.

I don't think we're far away from court ordered wire taps to compel Google to enable the cameras and microphones.

Any such court orders would be sealed indefinitely as well. In 5-10 or so years I predict we will have another Snowden, describing that the NSA has been running a ring -1 process on every single Intel Management Engine co-processor in the entire world.

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