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It doesn't make much sense to make the President's whereabouts specifically well known since they are already quite well known. If you really wanted to engage
by mherdeg 13y ago
It doesn't make much sense to make the President's whereabouts specifically well known since they are already quite well known.
If you really wanted to engage the folks involved in domestic data collection with a visceral sense of "a stranger is watching me" creepiness, you could — and I don't think this is a good idea — launch a site like "Who Is Everyone Who Has Interacted With NSA Director Keith Alexander?".
Imagine if someone used press reports to find names of people who have been seen publicly with Alexander. Then suppose that they built a dossier for each person containing detailed information about their name, date & time & nature of their documented interactions with Alexander, current address, most commonly used usernames on common public Web sites, links to any online "profiles" where available, educational background, property records, voting history, criminal record, all online postings, current and historical location information as inferred from Tweets or other sources, and any connections to any other "people of interest". Imagine seeing all this dossier-style information availably publicly with a quick Web search — it would be very creepy.
(This is not really that different from what the folks at cryptome.org do.)
I do not think that this would be a very good idea to do because I don't think the possible contributions to discourse (slim if any) would be more valuable than the possible harm to the folks in question.