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Zonie63 -> RE: Happy now...? The neocons are. (8/26/2014 9:32:38 AM)
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Hey look guys, a pro-conservative site pushing fear, Fear,.....FEAR! This bit of knowledge and ability has been around for a while now. If the NSA and CIA didn't have access to this information and technology by now, their idiots. So its safe to assume they not only are aware of it and have it, they are using it. And the nation is safer for it. If your paranoid schizophrenia is getting to you that much, of the NSA/CIA snooping on your cellphone....get rid of the cellphone. Problem solved....
Please point out for us where this has existed.
Your first sentence sort of states it as obvious: "The technology the surveillance industry is selling...". How could the surveillance industry sell something that wasn't in existence already? Before they started selling it, it would be logical to assume they had the technology. You cant sell a working BFG-9000 to the US Military unless you actually have the technology to make a working BFG-9000.
I stand corrected. It was in the Post article I never searched.
But experts say these new systems allow less technically advanced governments to track people in any nation — including the United States — with relative ease and precision.
It is unclear which governments have acquired these tracking systems, but one industry official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to share sensitive trade information, said that dozens of countries have bought or leased such technology in recent years. This rapid spread underscores how the burgeoning, multibillion-dollar surveillance industry makes advanced spying technology available worldwide.
That Post article was rather interesting.
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Companies that make and sell surveillance technology seek to limit public information about their systems’ capabilities and client lists, typically marketing their technology directly to law enforcement and intelligence services through international conferences that are closed to journalists and other members of the public.
Yet marketing documents obtained by The Washington Post show that companies are offering powerful systems that are designed to evade detection while plotting movements of surveillance targets on computerized maps. The documents claim system success rates of more than 70 percent.
A 24-page marketing brochure for SkyLock, a cellular tracking system sold by Verint, a maker of analytics systems based in Melville, N.Y., carries the subtitle “Locate. Track. Manipulate.” The document, dated January 2013 and labeled “Commercially Confidential,” says the system offers government agencies “a cost-
effective, new approach to obtaining global location information concerning known targets.”
The brochure includes screen shots of maps depicting location tracking in what appears to be Mexico, Nigeria, South Africa, Brazil, Congo, the United Arab Emirates, Zimbabwe and several other countries. Verint says on its Web site that it is “a global leader in Actionable Intelligence solutions for customer engagement optimization, security intelligence, and fraud, risk and compliance,” with clients in “more than 10,000 organizations in over 180 countries.”
I predict a resurgence in dial telephones, land lines, typewriters, snail mail, and 8-track tapes. It's getting to the point where if people can't trust the technology anymore, they'll stop using it.
Another bit of information from the Post article:
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“Any tin-pot dictator with enough money to buy the system could spy on people anywhere in the world,” said Eric King, deputy director of Privacy International, a London-based activist group that warns about the abuse of surveillance technology. “This is a huge problem.”
Security experts say hackers, sophisticated criminal gangs and nations under sanctions also could use this tracking technology, which operates in a legal gray area. It is illegal in many countries to track people without their consent or a court order, but there is no clear international legal standard for secretly tracking people in other countries, nor is there a global entity with the authority to police potential abuses.
In response to questions from The Washington Post this month, the Federal Communications Commission said it would investigate possible misuse of tracking technology that collects location data from carrier databases. The United States restricts the export of some surveillance technology, but with multiple suppliers based overseas, there are few practical limits on the sale or use of these systems internationally.
Isn't outsourcing great?
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