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think no one would notice what you were doing on Facebook?
“Speaking at a technology conference in New York City
Wednesday night, CIA chief technology officer Ira Hunt stated that
the CIA "fundamentally [tries] to collect everything and hang on to it
forever," referring to massive troves of personal data that have become
increasingly accessible through online and wireless technology. Text messages,
social media, online videos, and 'cloud' data storage technologies have
proliferated in recent years and the CIA is hungry for more development in
technology that could potentially store and organize all such information in
unprecedented databases, referred to as 'Big Data'. "The value of any
piece of information is only known when you can connect it with something else
that arrives at a future point in time," Hunt said. "Since you can't connect dots you don't have, it
drives us into a mode of, we fundamentally try to collect everything and hang
on to it forever." Hunt did not reveal how and through what vehicles the
CIA would gain access to every piece of cyber information that citizens put out
there, but he did express the agency's unrelenting desire for technology and
intelligence capabilities—such as advanced storage facilities—that would allow
them to do so. "It is really very nearly within our grasp to be able to
compute on all human generated information," Hunt said. "You're
already a walking sensor platform," he added. "You are aware of the
fact that somebody can know where you are at all times, because you carry a
mobile device, even if that mobile device is turned off," he said.
"You know this, I hope? Yes? Well, you should." Hunts statements
arrive shortly after reports surfaced earlier this week that
Amazon has signed a 10-year contract with the CIA worth $600 million to develop
a vast cloud storage infrastructure for the agency.”
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3 comments:
Mick, your observation here is completely frightening but forward-thinking... Freedom of choice, freedom of thought, freedom of speech -- what good is any of it if a greater 'authority' may act as librarian to house what minutia any of us present whether in passing or for art or commentary? I'd rather shut down my computers and go offline than risk potential subordination to an exterior brain casting judgments.
SNAFU still dominates government activities. They are good at frightening boardroom visions but it usually unwinds in the implementation. You might be fucked if you get caught up in some nasty little pilot project but otherwise - ooh ooh next big idea .....
The bureaucratic talent for fucking up big time is all that saves us.
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