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You do realize that the balloon was basically a laser pointer on a wall?   It's not the balloon that was spying, it was simply the focal point used to track and manipulate our actions via social media.   It's not an accident that most of the world first saw video of the balloon on TikTok.   We're all just a bunch of cats jumping at flickering light.
Other famous incidence of spying are all the ones the US is doing without getting caught and nobody actually knows about. >

If nobody knows about it, it isn't famous