NSA TAPS

(4:9:23) Wed Jun 12, 2013

Garbage 
Temporal Databases

The current data-mining scandal is troubling. All your Texts, Calls, eMails, and other digital data is being captured and stored. First reaction is outrage. However, after careful examination, it’s legal. Maybe our laws need modification, but the data-mining functions exactly like a garbage dump.

Your garbage is Private until it is mixed with other garbage. Now, it is fair game to anyone with access. It contains your personal digits, communications, and habits. To protect your privacy from the public dump, Capitalism invents shredders with varying degrees of effectiveness and cost. Digital shredders are available for discarded hard-drives. It’s only a matter of time for electronic garbage shredders to hit the market. Encryptors are pre-disposal shredders; available now but difficult to use.

A garbage-dump or data-dump is carefully managed to allow temporal searches. For example: if someone is missing, a warrant is issued to search the area of the dump coinciding with the disappearance timeframe. The data-dump is being used the same way. It is a great deterrent to crime and terrorism because any event will authorize a detailed search yielding associates.

Public data shredders and obfuscaters are on the way; just like buying virus protection from the vary people inventing the viruses. It’s another shakedown. But, one we will gladly pay the internet, search engine, email, chat providers to destroy our communications and information. However, presently that information is more valuable to the ad marketers. A Constitutional Right to Privacy might need to be added, but we are dealing with Global collection; all nations are affected by this data-garbage-yard.

The difference between Bush and Obama’s use of this data orgy is Bush used it to track terrorists while Obama uses it to crush political dissent. That’s what makes it scary and outrages the public; not the collection, but the usage.

 

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