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ubernostrum on Aug 25, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Apple seeking to patent spyware

Government agencies have used cellular phones as recording devices since long before there was such a thing as an iPhone. Take your meds and get some sleep.

jrockway on Aug 25, 2010 [–]

Oh yeah. The government has already taken some privacy rights, so we should stop speaking out against taking more.

You can do that, but I'm going to continue to support the EFF and ACLU.

Take your meds and get some sleep.

I wouldn't need the meds if the Internet wasn't so full of rhetoric like this!

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