Partly true, poal would have to share info
If you control the communications infrastructure, you can see the traffic going across the wire. ISP's can see this data because they own the infrastructure.
Think OpenVPN or SSL is going to protect your data? Operation Orchestra has ensured backdoors exist in all mainline encryption software. OpenSSL and OpenVPN are both extreemely opaque open-source projects, by design.
I'm strictly referring to Twitter, not the US Govt. Twitter does not have access to those 'tools' that the alphabet agencies do. Twitter does sell, provide, and share data with LEO upon request but Twitter does not have access to Poal's data unless they share their data which is usually done via malware or API.
I get what you're saying. My point is that twitter's data is sold via data brokers which means all the data ends up in the hands of the elite (to give a term to the highest-ups). All ISP data, along with data from companies like twitter and other big tech corps, along with every bit of data sold by third parties to data brokers, all ends up in a centralized repository.
Not the kind of data advertising companies can get to, but it is data that the nation-states and global powers have access to.
Fortunately nation states and mega corps don't give a shit about us on an individual basis, unless an individual does something to become targeted by them.
Sorting through that data takes a lot of resources and time.
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