• ohulancutash@feddit.uk
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    2 months ago

    From the 1980s, all phone, fax and internet traffic between Britain and Ireland was intercepted by RAF intelligence and run through automated keyword analysis to harvest intelligence about republicanism. Britain has been the world leader in signals intelligence for nearly a century.

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      2 months ago

      And let’s not forget all that CCTV surveillance kicking off since like the 1960s. There’s an estimated 7 million surveillance cameras in that little country.