Casual spying on citizens is new to Western governments (unless you count East Germany as Western).
However in some countries your phone must have mandatory government spyware on your mobile phone and PC:
However in some countries your phone must have mandatory government spyware on your mobile phone and PC:
depends on "casual" and "new" I guess? Echelon is a dragnet from the 70s, and at least the US, UK and Australian governments spied lots on anti-war protestors and environmentalists and civil rights campaigners and trade unionists. Some Australians wrote a book called "Our ASIO Files" (ASIO is the Australian internal spy/security agency) based on being surveilled during the 80s.
> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Dam_Youth_Escort
did you not read the article you've linked? this was never deplpoyed.
Five Eyes are old hands at spying on their citizens. [0]
(And it was only used over radio so base station traffic could be wiretapped even more easily.)
Any employee of the state can spy on you and the press also do a fair bit of spying on the population.
Its a national past time when thinking of curtain twitchers and neighbourhood watch schemes.
come on mate, get your head straight.
When is an anonymous tip off by the public, just a cover for the state. They cant do it to everyone as the game would be up, but there is much more surveillance than you realise.
Alot of my relatives worked for the state, and as a kid I over heard alot!