hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Yes it is.
If it’s not, that has to do with you becoming an explicit target of 3-lettter agencies beforehand. Look, it’s legally risky and expensive to collect data from people, evaluate it and draw conclusions. You can become a big enough target for those agencies to reason that it’s worth it, but you gotta work really hard to get there.
In fact, the most likely thing for any given random person is either getting caught up in phishing attacks or getting chased by a PI at the mercy of family or a former partner that is holding grudges.
What I’m saying is yes, there’s a tiny chance that it’s not safe but if it really was dangerous for you to speak, you would probably already know.
Famously at Edward Snowden’s first interview the NSA was tapping him and he was chased around right up until they lost jurisdiction and so every TSA checkpoint became dangerous for him. But everyone who thinks they are just as endangered as Edward Snowden is most likely just paranoid.