US brain trust: Beware of trawling-for-terrorist apps
Surveillance programs that try to identify terrorists by trawling the internet and electronic databases for tell-tale signs are of limited success and should be carefully evaluated for privacy concerns, a group of technologists and policy makers that advises the US government said. A 352-page report issued Tuesday by the …
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On the bright side...
...at least we don't get thrown in the slammer for writing naughty short stories.
Total Information Awareness
Of course, the acronym is TIA. aka (in medicine) as a "mini stroke". Which does a pretty good job of defining what's happening here. Not a total disaster, but some debilitated thinking.
everyone should read cory doctrow's 'Little Brother'
http://craphound.com/littlebrother
read it. and you can either buy a printed copy or download it for free *off the author's website*
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