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Did we learn nothing from the NSA? The big players long ago learned: you won't ever have the option to process something you never collected in the first place.
by loteck 7y ago
Did we learn nothing from the NSA? The big players long ago learned: you won't ever have the option to process something you never collected in the first place. "Collect it all." Process it later.
- knzhou 7y agoDo some order of magnitude calculations. There isn't enough storage space to reasonably collect everybody's video feed continually. It would require a significant chunk of literally all bandwidth that exists. If the NSA were actively monitoring your phone's camera feed, it wouldn't only work when Facebook is open, and it wouldn't literally say it was doing so on the screen, like it is here. What is actually happening just doesn't look like genuine surveillance. As I said, it looks like a mistake.
- asjw 7y agoIf you have the metadata regarding phone usage or engagement you know when it's the best moment If you can process the images on the phone for cheap (modern phones can do that) you can send only the relevant metadata