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You Know Who Else Collected Metadata? The Stasi
The East German secret police, known as the Stasi, were an infamously intrusive secret police force. They amassed dossiers on about one quarter of the population of the country during the Communist regime. But their spycraft — while incredibly invasive — was also technologically primitive by today's standards.
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The NSA is actually a lot worse than the Stasi because electronic communication is part of our daily lives and there's no escaping it.
This. And it's much easier for them to get it nowadays.
The Stasi weren't considered bad because they collected metadata. It was all the kidnappings, murders, and other minor things of that nature.