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[–] [email protected] 15 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

New metadata tag added to each individual's archive. We already know thanks to Snowden that they've been collecting EVERYTHING and using it to effectively go back in time and retroactively monitor anyone they want.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 12 hours ago

I remember when this would just get you called a crazy conspiracy theorist. Then when it turned out to be true, nobody said anything.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

I‘m guessing for now all this data is functionally useless since there is too much of it and you can‘t really differentiate between shit poster and actual threat.

What I wonder though, if eventually some AI could predict future behaviour, like say they fed it digital footprints of those that go ahead and do something, could it spot those similar?

Well, I hope I‘ll be dead by then cause I don‘t want to see the future police states at work, it‘s bad enough as it is.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago

Oh no that information is readily available, indexed, ready to be brought up at a moments notice as soon as they have someone new on the radar. They can crunch through that data very quickly to generate a threat assessment on a new person. For the government, the difference between trolling and real threat don't matter, they treat them the same until you are about to do something. If you've ever made a joking threat about a politician on the internet, there's a file open on you, it just may not have your name on it yet.

It's not about predicting, it's meant to be retroactive once they have a person in mind. That's what makes the data collection technically legal according to the courts, since no specific individual is being targeted by the mass data collection, no warrant is necessary. They can gobble it all up now, and sift through it later.