This has been known for years. I’m not sure why it’s only now getting attention. Section 702 was just renewed, so maybe it’s out the issue on people’s radar?

This has been known for years. I’m not sure why it’s only now getting attention. Section 702 was just renewed, so maybe it’s out the issue on people’s radar? https://www.nationalreview.com/news/house-passes-annual-defense-bill-extends-section-702-surveillance-authority/ https://www.nationalreview.com/news/house-passes-annual-defe... Until we have a privacy bill or rights or equivalent, attached to the individual, privacy will be exploited by every nation and business imaginable. And the efforts to try to make it more difficult to tap data without an warrant are asinine… all it does is push the databases to public/private partnership models, and these models can generally easily de-anonymize data by cross referencing data. It’s strange to see an article on the subject published a month after the section 702 renewal, as if fisa and warrants weren’t the issue but commercial collection sources somehow are. Besides… It’s not some big secret: the website is easily Googleable as is the deck. http://isasecurity.org/patternz http://isasecurity.org/patternz https://sovsys.co/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/PATTERNZ-NATIONAL-SECURITY-PATTERN-DETECTION.pdf https://sovsys.co/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/PATTERNZ-NATION... AND Forbes also covered this exact system back in November of last year. https://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2023/11/14/web-browsing-data-is-serious-security-threat-to-eu-and-us/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2023/11/14/web-b... The real scoop would be looking at how new AI systems are being used to mine this data. This is the real problem national security agencies have to solve: how to consistently gain useful and actionable insights at scale and decide what’s not worth paying attention to because the absolutely colossal volumes of data generates huge amounts of review. Anyone know why this article is dropping now? Odd timing.