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Are The Thought Police Listening To Everyone All The Time?

In George Orwell's time (the 1940's), it was unclear whether or not the police had the capacity to listen to everyone's telescreen surveillance device all the time.

Now, thank's to vast server farms running AI software, maybe they can listen to everyone all the time.

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