- Banned
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Imagine a time in the future, where your Government has forced all ISP's to record your private internet activity for upto a decade. Now imagine the removal of a need for warrants to access this vast pool of data, which could end up in the hands of police, intelligence agencies, government ministers or private IT security contractors.
Perhaps even go a bit further, to a future where most information is stored digitally. Where you have been, or more importantly where you are, who you have partied with, your private communications, loves and hates, business deals, ideas and IP all have existed or are stored, to some extent, on the web.
In this future Governments and private enterprise have colluded to create vast databases, where advanced meta search algorithms combined with sophisticated predictive programs, trawl through this sea of information on the hunt for juicy tidbits, identifying patterns and creating profiles of your actions, personality and movements, cross referencing it against real time input in search of red flags or anomalies.
Ok a bit crazy, tin foil hattish, the plot for umpteen number of b-grade sci-fi movies...... Not really, because the hypothetical circumstances presented are not that far away from our current reality.
Now the first two hypotheticals are in no way as yet related. In that sense I have jumped the gun a bit.
But both are very real proposals and/or possibilities.
In fact, there are many other similar ideas along similar lines to the first, being proposed or enacted currently around the globe.
Yet this new project by google and the CIA, takes us from the territory of unwieldy Government snooping, to an era of sophisticated digital profiling and data collection.
So now the point.
Outside of any blatant tinfoil hatism and there is obviously an underlying implicit warning, or a call for deep concern.
If not already, we may have to start taking very seriously what we post and send on the web. Private communiqués are just not that and personal internet security (TOR, encrypted email or chat clients etc.) may become a very real necessity.
In fact it may be something people really need to consider in terms of their politics/and or political involvement. It does seem all but inevitable unless concerned parties are interested in making their voices heard, raising awareness or even affecting change with their vote.
Well, an imaginary penny for your thoughts?
Perhaps even go a bit further, to a future where most information is stored digitally. Where you have been, or more importantly where you are, who you have partied with, your private communications, loves and hates, business deals, ideas and IP all have existed or are stored, to some extent, on the web.
In this future Governments and private enterprise have colluded to create vast databases, where advanced meta search algorithms combined with sophisticated predictive programs, trawl through this sea of information on the hunt for juicy tidbits, identifying patterns and creating profiles of your actions, personality and movements, cross referencing it against real time input in search of red flags or anomalies.
Ok a bit crazy, tin foil hattish, the plot for umpteen number of b-grade sci-fi movies...... Not really, because the hypothetical circumstances presented are not that far away from our current reality.
Now the first two hypotheticals are in no way as yet related. In that sense I have jumped the gun a bit.
But both are very real proposals and/or possibilities.
In fact, there are many other similar ideas along similar lines to the first, being proposed or enacted currently around the globe.
Yet this new project by google and the CIA, takes us from the territory of unwieldy Government snooping, to an era of sophisticated digital profiling and data collection.
So now the point.
Outside of any blatant tinfoil hatism and there is obviously an underlying implicit warning, or a call for deep concern.
If not already, we may have to start taking very seriously what we post and send on the web. Private communiqués are just not that and personal internet security (TOR, encrypted email or chat clients etc.) may become a very real necessity.
In fact it may be something people really need to consider in terms of their politics/and or political involvement. It does seem all but inevitable unless concerned parties are interested in making their voices heard, raising awareness or even affecting change with their vote.
Well, an imaginary penny for your thoughts?
