The spying is not what suprises me, it’s the prosecution. I see why the term matched, I just don’t see why it would be illegal.

I wouldn’t expect my data to be secure, but I wouldn’t expect to be prosecuted as if I had willfully made it a public statement.

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he wrote “On my way to blow up the plane (I’m a member of the Taliban).” in a private group chat on snap chat

…a private group chat. Nothing stupid like posting it on xitter or other public place.

Its a fucking in-joke. Do I need to worry about what I say to my friends now in private and worry about what my friendly local government spy would think about it… ?

All this invasion of privacy all these years and all they have to show for it are a few false positives.

Yeah, you’re right, that’s the problem. That system makes sense if big corpos use it to “test” each other for copyright infringement, but when an individual gets involved they just get steamrolled wether they’re in the right or not, since the system assumes they have a team of lawyers on retainer in order to work as intended.

This is just plainly not illegal.