Comment on Never underestimate the surveillance power of Babushkas!
Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 3 months agoIt’s actually a bit deeper than that, at least from my Romanian perspective. Our old ladies were literally hired by our security services to monitor and report ön everything going on in their neighbourhoods. They were essentially human CCTVs, facial recognition and behavioural pattern matchers all rolled into one while being paid pennies.
humbletightband@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
You joking, right?
Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Deadly serious. By the end of communism, they had over a million informants. You had to make the assumption that everyone you talked to and every old lady on a park bench was an informant.
Funny story, I know someone who was recruited to inform on her colleagues at work, but after the third time in a row she told them everything is wonderful, everyone is happy and productive, she was promptly fired (as an informant, not from the factory).
AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 3 months ago
We hired you to give us DIRT 😤😤😤 MAKE IT UP IF YOU HAVE TO