The odds of someone targeting you (just for kicks) aren't that high.
But don't tell Glenn Greenwald that cause then he has to go find something else to scare you with, to capture your attention in our current useless "state of fear" preserving info tsunami ecosystem.
But anyway lets do the math...
The US has 200 cops per million. Lets say 1% of that million are born douchebags and there is another 1% who have turned douchebagy for whatever reason.
So you have 200 cops to deal with 20000 bad guys per million. So in general they have enough going on keeping them occupied.
Now even if you assume they don't spend any time doing their job and all of them spend all their time fixating on you and no one else, the chances of them picking on you out of the million other options are still pretty low.
What makes it even lower is if you apply the 2% douchebag rule to the cops themselves, you get probably 2 bad apples in that 200.
But to indulge you lets apply it also to anyone who has access to the same privacy violating tech - bank managers, google engineers, telco engineers, the military, rich ppl etc. Keep adding whatever category you feel like and applying the 2% rule. You wont raise the odds too badly.
Your comment comes off pretty condescending and dismissive, which clouds a valid point. It's not likely you will be individually targeted by law enforcement.
The scarier proposition to me is bulk collection and latent analysis.
I think you can change that to "if you are not politically active, you are unlikely to be targetted"
On the other hand, if you are known to criticise police actions, it's likely that they will be targetting you. The BLM leaders probably haven't connected to a real cellphone tower in years
The odds of someone targeting you (just for kicks) aren't that high.
But don't tell Glenn Greenwald that cause then he has to go find something else to scare you with, to capture your attention in our current useless "state of fear" preserving info tsunami ecosystem.
But anyway lets do the math...
The US has 200 cops per million. Lets say 1% of that million are born douchebags and there is another 1% who have turned douchebagy for whatever reason.
So you have 200 cops to deal with 20000 bad guys per million. So in general they have enough going on keeping them occupied.
Now even if you assume they don't spend any time doing their job and all of them spend all their time fixating on you and no one else, the chances of them picking on you out of the million other options are still pretty low.
What makes it even lower is if you apply the 2% douchebag rule to the cops themselves, you get probably 2 bad apples in that 200.
But to indulge you lets apply it also to anyone who has access to the same privacy violating tech - bank managers, google engineers, telco engineers, the military, rich ppl etc. Keep adding whatever category you feel like and applying the 2% rule. You wont raise the odds too badly.