NSA and XBone Kinect. (Not News)

qwertywarrior · June 18, 2013

Explains my view on the whole thing.

Google has tons of data about us. All of their services are automated according to that data. As far as we know, that's all they're doing with it, and that's all they probably want to do with it. There's just too much info to sift through, even with isolating keywords and logging it. It still needs to be verified even if it throws up a red flag, etc. Too much effort involved.

NSA taps trillions of calls, great. Are they recording it all? Probably not. If it is indeed keyword triggered, keywords can be used out of context and will need to be verified before any action is taken. The verification itself can take forever depending on how much recorded data is present, and I'd imagine only conversations that have multiple keywords that trigger a red flag would be recorded. The more red flags, the more serious the threat, potentially. Multiple trigger words could also be out of context.

The short version: They can monitor our every move. Whether or not it's practical to monitor every single individual is a different story entirely.

I'm not worried. I know people who are panic-stricken and threatening to go off grid because of it. Ironically, the very same people who claim to be "off the grid" regularly use Facebook. I'm not sure they even know what "off the grid" means.

your looking at now

im looking at the future

10 years 20 years etc