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Not much to think about we completely and totally are. One of the things that came out of Snowden releases was just how bloody efficient and interconnectef GCH
by noir_lord 7y ago
Not much to think about we completely and totally are.
One of the things that came out of Snowden releases was just how bloody efficient and interconnectef GCHQ is with the NSA.
It's rather typical that the most efficient government body appears to be the one used for spying on its own (and everyone else's) citizens.
It's ok though as the new home secretary is a stable and sensible...no wait it's Priti "I had to resign because I had secret undeclared meetings with a foreign power" Patel[1].
We are totally fucked.
[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-41920238 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-41920238
- arethuza 7y agoI had a phone call with the Inland Revenue where they collected most of my details by an automated voice based system - which worked flawlessly. This came as a slight surprise as literally no other voice activated system works for me in any way that is remotely usable (Apple, Android, whatever is in my car...). I wonder where they get their voice recognition technology from? ;-)
- viraptor 7y agoHighly targeted voice recognition is much simpler to train, which makes endpoints like inland revenue much more accurate than generic voice assistants. In many cases this is a problem of "did you say one of these 20 things" vs "let's try to transcribe every one of these words from a full dictionary".
- arethuza 7y agoYeah that makes sense, still it was a lot better than other systems I've used when I've phoned support lines for some commercial companies.
- szerr0221 7y agoFYI some companies use people to transcribe the speech in real time, its faster than taking a phone call with all the extra pleasantries.
- noir_lord 7y agoIf I was a cynic I'd say they seem to be remarkably efficient at doing the things we don't want and much less so the things we do.