Us Gov't Spying On Millions Of Brazilians...

"'É incerto o número de pessoas e empresas espionadas no Brasil."
O Globo is so famous for sensationalizing ....
 
Gathering meta data is like the hubble telescope taking pictures of deep space ....we gather and it will take the next 400 years to analyse it. 99.9% empty noise.

1. There is no evidence so far that in this case it is only metadata. In the US there are (minimal) constraints on opening communications of "US persons" to access their content, but even those constraints would not apply to anyone outside the US or non-US nationals anywhere in the world (eg, everyone on BAExpats). Sorry the article is only in Brasilian, but that's why god invented the googletranslate.

2. Your comparison to the Hubble is directly contradicted by William Binney, the NSA official who designed the NSA's Trailblazer database. According to Binney, metadata is more intrusive than content because it enables the gov't (or anyone else who eventually gets the technology) to literally reconstruct every movement subjects make and every relation they have.

...And as for o Globo, I agree the globe is in deep doodoo.
 
It's kinda like Google, Facebook, et al. They aren't interested in YOUR information. Nobody cares about YOU. They are interested in aggregate information. Unless of course you are having conversations that include particular words, phrases, combinations, etc.

My concern is that once that information is collected it's too easy to use it for nefarious purposes.
 
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Ha!
 
This just in!!!! The U.S spent years and billions spying on Brazil and just realizing there's nothing to spy on....But they had a blast on the beach in the interim ; )

Let's not believe everything we read : ) Look at the source.
 
1. There is no evidence so far that in this case it is only metadata. In the US there are (minimal) constraints on opening communications of "US persons" to access their content, but even those constraints would not apply to anyone outside the US or non-US nationals anywhere in the world (eg, everyone on BAExpats). Sorry the article is only in Brasilian, but that's why god invented the googletranslate.

2. Your comparison to the Hubble is directly contradicted by William Binney, the NSA official who designed the NSA's Trailblazer database. According to Binney, metadata is more intrusive than content because it enables the gov't (or anyone else who eventually gets the technology) to literally reconstruct every movement subjects make and every relation they have.

...And as for o Globo, I agree the globe is in deep doodoo.

You got it Ed. Now run with that line.
 
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