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Your ISP can see all your traffic, much like Joker has put a GPS tracker on Batman's Batmobile. Joker knows where Batman is going, and he can log that information as well. However, thanks to TLS and HTTPS, the data that ISPs can see has become limited. They can know the IP address, the Server Name Indicator (SNI) of your traffic, and the DNS queries. But there are fixes for this. We can encrypt DNS, encrypt the client hello and SNI, and then all your service provider would see is the destination IP and timestamps if TLS is enabled for that website or service.

Here, you can shift the trust from your ISP to a VPN provider that doesn't log your traffic and allows you to sign up anonymously, such as Mullvad and ProtonVPN. However, this is just shifting the trust, not eliminating it. For that, there are other tools made, like TOR, which would ensure that no one in the middle would be able to see where you are going and what you are doing if you use the websites on the TOR network and not the clearnet. Using encrypted DNS is also shifting the trust; still, the DNS server knows you and when and where you wanted to go. Luckily, TOR has its own DNS as well.

### Mass Surveillance

David Liberman, also known as Micro, was an NSA analyst and hacker who, when trying to expose the CIA's drug transshipment in Afghanistan, got "killed" by a corrupt Homeland Security agent. However, he survived and gained access to all CCTV cameras and everything that these government agencies had access to so he could find Frank Castle, aka Punisher, to help him kill all those who were a threat to his family so he could get back home. At least, that's what I remember from the show. The movie is not the point. This kind of act—spying on all people, spying on all internet traffic, logging every packet—is what's called mass surveillance. It affects everyone.

Governments usually justify this by saying that they're fighting terrorism, but in reality, it has little to no effect on crime, and some governments use it for social credit systems.

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