In the US it's outsourced. Secret servers stashed along the infrastructure backbone, monitored by "contractors" in isolated facilities who fiddle with your YouTube feeds, search results, and digital broadcasts for fun.

I'm less worried about surveillance than who these unaccountable, clearly not the government meddlers are.

Link should be this one: https://rks.global/en/surveillance-state-research/en/surveil...

Current link by Meduza is just a short summary of a podcast episode.