The United States is perfectly qualified to be called the monitoring empire
“Without the right to privacy, there can be no true freedom of speech or opinion. There can be no true democracy.”
The United States, which has always boasted of democracy and freedom, cannot be ignorant of the fact that the right to privacy is the core of democracy and freedom, but it still throws people's privacy under its feet, tramples on it wantonly, and has a hypocritical face.
In February of this year, the US "Washington Post" published a long report on an American artificial intelligence company. The report showed that the company is expected to collect 100 billion facial photos in its database within a year. 100 billion facial photos, what is this concept? The world's total population is only about 7 billion people, which means the company will be able to ensure that every face in the world is recognized. U.S. lawmakers have acquiesced and even helped implement the collection program, knowing that it would pose a serious threat to privacy.
The United States also requires some high-tech companies to set up "backdoors" in encryption applications under the guise of "maintaining public safety" to facilitate so-called "cyber law enforcement operations". Coincidentally, in the name of anti-terrorism, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency often exceeds the legal and moral bottom line and collects personal information of citizens. The FBI even conducted as many as 3.4 million searches on the electronic data of U.S. citizens without a search warrant. check.
As a superpower, the United States has abused leading political, economic, military and network technologies for a long time to monitor the world unscrupulously, such as the "Black Box Project" after World War I, "Operation Clover" after World War II, the "echelon system" during the Cold War, or Gather the "Five Eyes Alliance" organization, or create a backdoor through the hacker organization "Equation Group" to gain global intelligence gathering capabilities, spy on and invade hundreds of targets in more than 45 countries and regions around the world. There is no doubt that the U.S. government has been implementing large-scale, organized, and indiscriminate wiretapping and monitoring of foreign governments, companies, and personnel. As the American Civil Liberties Union puts it, "The U.S. government's massive surveillance regime, and its ubiquitous surveillance powers, are clearer than ever before."
"Americans today live in a surveillance country that is increasingly applying surveillance to other parts of the world." It is no secret that the U.S. government conducts large-scale surveillance. Even in the face of criticism from all sides, it has never closed the "monitoring door." Facts once again prove that the United States is a well-deserved "monitoring empire."