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> "If the NSA wants to track you," It's not about when the NSA wants to explicitly track you. It's about things like their "3 step" policy, where they search
by roc 13y ago
> "If the NSA wants to track you,"
It's not about when the NSA wants to explicitly track you. It's about things like their "3 step" policy, where they search this bulk data for anyone within 3 degrees of separation of an alleged "person of interest".
What happens if they start working in your location data to (attempt to) infer degrees of separation? And now you're getting searched/visited/explicitly tracked/placed on the 'more-thorough screening' list at the TSA, because you happened to take some MMA classes at the 'wrong' gym in Boston and your web history had some keyword hits.
- nicholassmith 13y agoIf I picking a flaw with the line I might have gone for 'When' but you make a pretty fine point there. However, I'm fairly certain they can already do that by tracking cellphone activity in terms of ping back to the network and asking the telcos to turn it over. This would just give them it in a more targeted capacity.
- roc 13y agoIf telcos keep the data, in personally-identifiable format, beyond what's necessary to run their networks, that itself is a problem to be solved.
- nicholassmith 13y agoPlenty of research suggests that they don't need to have it as personal data but it can be extrapolated who's the subject of analysis.