Angry Bird And Dreamy Smurf Are Watching You

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/closeread/2014/01/angry-bird-and-dreamy-smurf-are-watching-you-surveillance-apps.html

by trey_swann • 12 years ago

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digitalengineer• 12 years ago

Can't wait for all the bio-apps / Apple Watches add-ons for iPhone/Android to help tell the NSA how our body's are doing.

TheAnimus• 12 years ago

Why focus on the NSA or the intelligence services.

The fact is that many private companies have this vast amount of data, the big push with mobile device advertising was the accuracy of the geo-location. The fact you can offer really well targeted adverts.

These companies build profiles on everyone, but unlike the intelligence services who have a mandate which as some level is for our own personal good, these companies have no such thing.

The concern is that we are embracing devices that provide little, no, or obfuscated control over personal privacy.

psionski• 12 years ago

"privacy protections for U.S. persons exist across the entire process"

Gee, thanks for letting me know that at least some people might get some degree of protection. I might be a paying customer, sponsoring USA's economy as much as any citizen, but as I'm not actually American I guess this means fk me, right?

dsr_• 12 years ago

Right. But it's not personal; it's just that you're a possible terrorist. So is everyone you know. And if you know any US citizens, then they are possible terrorists. And so is everyone they know.

erikb• 12 years ago

If the juice of the article is in the Guardian why is the New Yorker linked here and not the article from the Guardian? http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/27/nsa-gchq-smartp...

Angry Bird And Dreamy Smurf Are Watching You

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