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Whether anyone is manually connecting to specific phones to listen in live to conversations is a very different topic. I'd say it's a more important one then whether Google are recording everything so they can advertise things at you.
But yeah, that's not what this article is about.
So, is the United States Department of Defense interested in some random dudes in Belgium, or Namibia? That US-centrism is sickening sometimes.
Considering that Belgium shares signals intelligence with the USA under the Fourteen Eyes agreement, they're most certainly interested.
They definitely are interested in that.
The lack of understanding about how broad-reaching and arbitrary USA’s surveillance web is, is sickening sometimes.