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Isn't it obvious to everyone by now? We have to wake up, basically every developed country has a program like PRISM that varies but the whole premise of capturi
by DigitalSea 13y ago
Isn't it obvious to everyone by now? We have to wake up, basically every developed country has a program like PRISM that varies but the whole premise of capturing information isn't anything new. This is something that the US and other countries have been doing since World War 2 in some shape or form.
I could easily write a script in Python through some crafty Google searches, the Facebook API, Twitter API, LinkedIn and simple scraping could compile a report of a person and or persons activity on the Internet throw in some natural language processing and I could paint a vague but nonetheless somewhat accurate representation of a person. Capturing phone meta data and tracking locations via cell phone towers would obviously only be only something those supplied with such information would be able to store and have access to.
The difference between a surveillance scraping network that infringes upon your privacy and one that walks the grey line very closely is what information it is given. The technology behind PRISM like programs is largely the same, perhaps fluctuations in how fast information can be retrieved, sorted, tagged and stored are the only difference.