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For the Americas, since at least mid 2000s, everyone is tagged and tracked in near real time. I'd be surprised (shocked) if those systems weren't global today.

• netsharc 5y ago
  Got proof, or "just trust me"? How do people still disappear, or commit attacks like the Boston bombing and the authorities have to go on man hunts trying to figure out who they were?
  • nebula8804 5y ago
    This event was ~9 years ago. Thats eons in the tech industry.
  • specialist 5y ago
    Proof? You want proof for something that has to be true? Phones, accounts, habits, preferences, property, births, deaths. Everything recorded, aggregated. Everything. Do you doubt this? Everyone's entire lifestream is archived. To leave no record, no trace, takes extraordinary effort and resources. Or to be completely off grid, living like a neolithic nomad; the same as not existing at all. -- Even in 2000s, Seisent was being used to solve cold cases. Queries to identify suspects. Big data to reveal any one without an allibi. It's like the 1,000s of rape kits, collected but unprocessed. Why? What possible reason can there be to not investigate? To not close those cases? We can only guess. Perhaps the people responsible don't want to know.
    • tedunangst 5y ago
      I think we need a few more dots between "my birth certificate is in the county courthouse" and "everything I do is tracked in real time" to make the connection.
      • specialist 5y ago
        Near real time.