Because of the public uproar the congress de-funded the Information Awareness office. However, the overseeing administration simply shifted the program to other secret DARPA projects. it never went away or stopped, it just keeps on secretly collecting
Research shows that indiscriminate monitoring fosters distrust, conformity and mediocrity. Scientist have said indiscriminate intelligence-gathering presents a grave risk to our mental health, productivity, social cohesion, and ultimately our future.
The NSA is building the biggest spy center in the world in the tiny town of Bluffdale, Utah and is blandly named the "Utah Data Center". It is the final piece in a complex puzzle assembled over the past decade. Its purpose: to intercept, decipher, analyze, and store vast swaths of the world’s communications as they zap down from satellites and zip through the underground and undersea cables of international, foreign, and domestic networks.
Flowing through its servers and routers and stored in near-bottomless databases will be all forms of communication, including the complete contents of private emails, cell phone calls, and Google searches, as well as all sorts of personal data trails—parking receipts, travel itineraries, bookstore purchases, and other digital “pocket litter.” It is, in some measure, the realization of the “total information awareness”
The mammoth Bluffdale center has another important and far more secret role. It is also critical for breaking codes. And code-breaking is crucial, because much of the data that the center will handle—financial information, stock transactions, business deals, foreign military and diplomatic secrets, legal documents, confidential personal communications—will be heavily encrypted.
The NSA made an enormous breakthrough several years ago in its ability to cryptanalyze, or break, unfathomably complex encryption systems employed by not only governments around the world but also many average computer users in the US. Remember this, Everybody’s a target; everybody that tries any source of communication is a target.
That's just the start of this invasion,
the CIA is now spying on you through your Appliances
( more on this in my next post )
As the world's governments march toward universal surveillance, scientist forewarns us that a future of universal surveillance will be a bleak authoritarian landscape in which we lose the ability to relax, innovate, or take risks.
A world in which the definition of "appropriate" thought and behavior becomes so narrow that even the basic family traditions will be treated as violations and met with exclusion or punishment. A world in which we will end up even surrendering our very last line of defense & rights willingly in the names of peace and protection.
When this happens we will surely look back and ask:
Why did we do this to ourselves?
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