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Maybe nobody cared because nobody figured they'd be able to retain the data they captured forever, or that eventually governments would acquire enough processing bandwidth to use the captured data in near realtime.

In the age of social media, we do the public outrage thing a lot better these days, too.

Not to mention that we haven't seen so much blatant abuse of power then.

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