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and Americans stationed in for instance Iraq, were very much monitored.

Um… This was never a secret. Like, at all. All the phones in the phone bank I hit up in the desert there were clearly labeled “Communications on this line can and will be monitored for operational security reasons”

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Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Was it written on the phone of the people they called?

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- ubergeek@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  
  Was it written on the phone of the people they called?
  
  No, but if they weren’t informed, frankly, that’s on the SM for not doing so. And honestly, anyone taking a call from a deployed soldier should just understand that reality.
  
  The claim was that with calls from foreign countries, if it was an American they spoke to, it would not be monitored. Only foreigners were.
  
  I’m not going to speak to generalities of whose calls were monitored and shouldn’t have been. Solely the item of “Americans stationed in Iraq were monitored”, which is, frankly, obviously happening. And every SM was informed as such. And they were instructed to inform their families of that fact.
  
  Every military spouse knew that, if they went to the pre-deployment briefings they were invited to. Every SM knew it. Every contractor knew it, and their families should have also been informed by the contractor.
  
  Hell, even in my state, only one party legally has to know it’s being monitored and/or recorded to be legal.
  
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