RE: The World’s Largest Social Network Is Not Facebook - Part 1
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it.
You are right about The Hammer. Dennis Montgomery built it and he blew the whistle. I was thinking of including later in this series. I'm going to talk about ThinThread, 9/11, PRISM and some other secret programs in my next article.
I read somewhere that the US will be able to track and monitor in real time the entire worlds data by 2018.
I haven't read that but it would not surprise me. I'm sure that they already have real-time monitoring going on right now e.g. let's say that they have a voice recording of a person (probably most of us), when that person makes a phone call the NSA systems use voice recognition software and it raises an alert and add it to the social graph. The software is constantly scanning over all of our calls. If Shazam and Sound Hound can recognize songs I'm sure that the NSA can recognize any voice once they have it in their database.
I believe you have to hit certain intel criteria from more traditional surveillance analysis before you are realtime monitored digitally. I expect every criminal, terrorist and government are realtime monitored but not us yet. Most data capture and storage is used for retrospective investigations at the moment. Eg if they catch someone doing something illegal they can go back and check their internet activity and communications.
Looking forward to the Prism stuff. Steemit wasn't around when that first come out so I doubt there is much of it on the blockchain.
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I agree. I probably didn't word it right. What I was trying to say was that once they've flagged you in the the system they can monitor you in real-time, including voice recognition.
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Oh yeah for sure. Then they have your whole life. They have some scary technology.