Sorry Dale, no good news.
A concept called "Data Mining" was developed in the '90's by IBM
Research in San Jose to deal with terabytes of seemingly random
data. The Army was working on Data Mining and around 1999, quietly
shut down the project when they saw what they could do. They feared
the Congress would kill them for threatening personal freedom.
So far, we hear little about it because what can be accomplished
by Data Mining is so far out that Arthur C. Clark would call it
silly.
Google "data Mining", I just got 52,200,000. That's on something
that didn't exist 10 years ago. I get 117,200,00 on "Chevrolet"
which has been around almost 100 years.
Hmmmm...
Ever wonder why grocery stores give customers a discount when
the use a store "Discount" card?
Anonymous
Dale.Clay@mdhelicopters.com wrote:
> Doc,
>
> Pretty much, that has been around since the Clinton days. Two programs,
> Carnivore and Echelon (IIR). Briton and Australia cooperate with us. The
> UK headquarters is in Cheltenham, Gloustershire, right across the traffic
> circle from a hotel I stay in when I'm over there.
>
> Real privacy is a thing of the past. As Dave suggests, just about anything
> electronic can be monitored. The good news is there is so much available,
> there is no way they can pay attention to it all, unless you become "a
> person of interest." Think drinking out of a fire hose.
>
> Dale C.
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