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Angry Bird And Dreamy Smurf Are Watching You
- digitalengineer 13y agoCan't wait for all the bio-apps / Apple Watches add-ons for iPhone/Android to help tell the NSA how our body's are doing.
- TheAnimus 13y agoWhy focus on the NSA or the intelligence services. The fact is that many private companies have this vast amount of data, the big push with mobile device advertising was the accuracy of the geo-location. The fact you can offer really well targeted adverts. These companies build profiles on everyone, but unlike the intelligence services who have a mandate which as some level is for our own personal good, these companies have no such thing. The concern is that we are embracing devices that provide little, no, or obfuscated control over personal privacy.
- psionski 13y ago"privacy protections for U.S. persons exist across the entire process" Gee, thanks for letting me know that at least some people might get some degree of protection. I might be a paying customer, sponsoring USA's economy as much as any citizen, but as I'm not actually American I guess this means fk me, right?
- dsr_ 13y agoRight. But it's not personal; it's just that you're a possible terrorist. So is everyone you know. And if you know any US citizens, then they are possible terrorists. And so is everyone they know.
- erikb 13y agoIf the juice of the article is in the Guardian why is the New Yorker linked here and not the article from the Guardian? http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/27/nsa-gchq-smartphone-app-angry-birds-personal-data http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/27/nsa-gchq-smartp...