alt Hacker NewsHas this happened before?
The NSA wiretaps all phone calls - do they extort random citizens for petty crimes that in any other case nobody would ever know or care about?
Microsoft has your browsing history - we know this because of the recently unsealed court case. Do they do it?
Facebook already ignores this law and scans the content of all private messages anyway. Are they doing what you predicted?
I don't think even the actual Stasi was stopping people at random for petty crimes, right?
I absolutely believe that if the NSA wants something from you badly enough and has the dirt to blackmail you than they will do it.