It should be a criminal act to attempt to build a mass surveillance apparatus, whether it's for law enforcement or private use.
It should be a criminal act to attempt to build a mass surveillance apparatus, whether it's for law enforcement or private use.
Would Ring be considered a mass surveillance apparatus? Accuweather? Facebook? Google? The Internet?
So long as it is configured to be a mass surveillance apparatus, then yes. It is possible to have lots of data without organizing it in a way to enable mass surveillance. Google, Facebook, and recently Ring, are excellent examples. I don't know what AccuWeather is to comment on it, but I would say your ISP (what I'm assuming is what you mean when you say "the internet" since "the internet" is not any single entity) is likely not a mass surveillance apparatus, since with the implementation of https, the spying they can do is superficial at best