I believe that the government has a line to watch me. That much is true. But to think anyone is actively listening in?
Going through every text message? Every post? Divining some intent from the last time I posted “post hog” or a dumb bit about a trump speech? I feel like since PRISM was made public, the one saving grace has been the deluge of data they collect basically obfuscates points they’re trying to find. And if they’re randomly dredging to look for something, they are wasting their time.
Instead they would be better served having these terabytes of information to work backwards from once they have you, or design some stupid racist AI to flag potential targets but still pull up a million false positives because of how detached they are from the reality of who could be a threat in this day and age.
That's pretty much what I've heard about their mass data collection projects: they're absolutely worthless at actually detecting an active threat like some little neo-nazi shit psyching himself up to go do a terrorism, but they're an invaluable database when it comes to creepy psychopaths in the DoD wanting to tailor search queries to find vulnerable women to stalk or the feds wanting to identify activists and decide which ones they want to persecute extra-hard instead of the usual "lmao just let local cops beat them senseless" level of repression.
I believe that the government has a line to watch me. That much is true. But to think anyone is actively listening in?
Going through every text message? Every post? Divining some intent from the last time I posted “post hog” or a dumb bit about a trump speech? I feel like since PRISM was made public, the one saving grace has been the deluge of data they collect basically obfuscates points they’re trying to find. And if they’re randomly dredging to look for something, they are wasting their time.
Instead they would be better served having these terabytes of information to work backwards from once they have you, or design some stupid racist AI to flag potential targets but still pull up a million false positives because of how detached they are from the reality of who could be a threat in this day and age.
That's pretty much what I've heard about their mass data collection projects: they're absolutely worthless at actually detecting an active threat like some little neo-nazi shit psyching himself up to go do a terrorism, but they're an invaluable database when it comes to creepy psychopaths in the DoD wanting to tailor search queries to find vulnerable women to stalk or the feds wanting to identify activists and decide which ones they want to persecute extra-hard instead of the usual "lmao just let local cops beat them senseless" level of repression.