The government can read people's minds remotely. This is 100% doable in today's technology, and in fact I think it may have been so for a long time before.

First of all see this video:
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBQuKW7vK-A
tl;dr Computer algorithms called "neural networks" can be "trained" to correlate brainwave patterns to images that you see/imagine inside your head. While in the video they only disclosed having trained the networks to detect images, the same concept can be applied to anything else going on inside your brain. Neural networks can be trained to decipher speech, audio, and any other cognitive processes (thinking and emotions) going on inside your head.

Now you might say: But in the video they said it needs putting stuff on your head to be able to pick up your brainwaves. Well, the government has had a device that can remotely detect brainwaves since 1973. Here's a link to the device's patent in Google patents and a snapshot the same page on archive.org:
>https://patents.google.com/patent/US3951134A/en
>https://web.archive.org/web/20210505115428/https://patents.google.com/patent/US3951134A/en

Mind you: The above video is from 2011, so the government has had room to be playing with this for at least a decade. In fact, neural networks are a much older concept, with research on them dating back to the eighties according to Wikipedia's article on them. The reason why they did not become popularly known is that the computers available to end consumers back then were too weak to run them. But governments had mainframe super computers far more powerful than personal computers, so it's possible that governments have been playing with this shit long before the 2010s (when they started becoming popularly known).