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- | ====== Here's a list of the actual reasons why mass surveillance of NSA, GCHQ etc are problematic: | ||
- | * Noone knows how the world will look like in 20 years time - laws could get changed or even become irrelevant. The main danger here is the creation of a surveillance state. Sadly the majority of people doesn' | ||
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- | * One could use the data for rating people by threat-potential using AI that analyse the data. (Note that machines don't " | ||
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- | * One of the most important problems (that is especially emerging from the one above) is the constraint of people' | ||
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- | * Also the data could get into the wrong hands - ie one of the ~35000 employees **[4]** (especially private contractors as Snowden was **[5]**) could for example sell data for money/ | ||
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- | * Moreover the definition of what is " | ||
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- | * Furthermore economic & diplomatic espionage is already occurring [9] which gives the ones eavesdropping unfair advantages **[10]** and the eavesdropped various problems. This also includes paralyzation of (mainly economic) progress **[10]**. | ||
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- | * Also the whole infrastructure, | ||
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- | * Especially during crises the abuse of such data could be critical and the defining moment after all (ie one could eliminate economic competitors deliberately during economic crises for competitive advantages on US side or mass-convict people who are likely part of the Occupy Movement etc). There' | ||
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- | * The main problem however is that they have data (most of their online activities including posts on 4chan for example) on every internet-user **[13]** that they could use for blackmailing or character assassination (ie for retrospective justification). That's of course leaving out that they are already spying on users' porn habits for exactly this purpose already **[14]**. Having sensitive data on every internet-user equals immense power which according to Snowden is what they' | ||
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- | [15] "These Programs Were Never About Terrorism: They’re About Economic Spying, Social Control, and Diplomatic Manipulation. They’re About Power" ~Snowden in letter to the people of brazil: http:// |