This isn’t (primarily) about catching every act in real time. It’s about making a record. When you silence dissent, you are focusing on a small segment of the population. With all this surveillance, you can target this segment, going back months or years and identify every questionable act he’s ever committed and person he’s met with (acquiring more targets). Going forward, you can glean every detail of that individual’s life, and use it in official or unofficial ways to silence him.
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