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I'm not sure, but I do know that what they have gotten caught doing is pretty invasive. The German agency was caught collecting sweat and body odor samples, which is infamous in Germany as an old Stasi tactic. And then of course the Australians monitor your browser history actively as well as...

Um... yes? Their social control policies are actually pretty bad and their version of the NSA monitors their citizens a lot more proactively than ours does. I'd honestly put them as worse than the UK or Germany, as those countries tend to do less with what they gather.

In that case, yes. In the case of Australia and other, more advanced, police states they clone all the data on your phone and then check it in more detail at their leisure. EDIT - I took that at a cafe in the city center. The turret on the top of the APC has a barrel that I'd place at...

When I visited in 2008 they were carefully removing the gold paint that had been used to cover over the Byzantine mosaics on the ceiling. If they turn it into a mosque then they will have to either cover or destroy those. When I was in Turkey in 2019 it was basically a police state. Check...