The over reliance on this type of surveillance has two problems.
First, agencies have too much data. There are solutions to soft through all of that noise but it makes it very difficult to casually catch something you’re not actively searching for.
Second, because everyone is painfully aware of technology able to spy on you now, and most law enforcement relies too heavily on subpoenas of data from these devices rather than active taps, it is far easier to avoid surveillance when you want privacy.
PS: Keep an old car (or motorcycle) in working condition. Manual transmission or kick start is best
First, agencies have too much data. There are solutions to soft through all of that noise but it makes it very difficult to casually catch something you’re not actively searching for.
That’s where all the machine learning and data mining research comes in. Want to automatically tell which users are of note? Apply some NLP models for that. Too much footage compared to storage? There are algorithms to determine which sections of the footage are relevant enough to keep. Metadata also helps, but now a lot of research is dedicated from creating some sort of summary metadata for loads of unstructured data.
Second, because everyone is painfully aware of technology able to spy on you now, and most law enforcement relies too heavily on subpoenas of data from these devices rather than active taps, it is far easier to avoid surveillance when you want privacy.
That’s just wrong and I have no idea why you think that. In the USA, the government can issue a gag order to prevent the companies from even acknowledging they’ve been subpoena’d, there’ve been multiple cases of Amazon or Meta providing data to the police without being coerced into it, and the vast majority of the internet is built on tracking and untrustworthy proprietary software. You might want to look into fingerprinting. It also doesn’t matter too much if the data ever gets to the government, as if these corporations couldn’t do fishy stuff with your data themselves in case the NSA/FBI/CIA were too much of a hassle.
Every proprietary OS has backdoors implanted into it, Google doesn’t even pretend they don’t read your emails, and apparently first world countries have company-owned cameras all over the place. Sure, there might be ways to degoogle your phone, use Tor and VPNs in a FOSS-only Linux distribution while self-hosting everything, but that’s not necessarily easy by itself, much less in case you also still want to remain connected to normal people who use WhatsApp.
Snowdens leaks revealed that the NSA was collecting basically all the fucking data in the world. The speculation then was that, unless they were looking into you already (in which case, in say an equivalent situation in the 60s, your house would be bugged anyway), then no-one would ever see that data - so effectively nothing had really changed. As the user below points out, with AI they will now certainly be pre-emptively selecting people to watch from the data based on their characteristics. It would be impossible for humans to sort through so much data to do that, buts it’s easy for AI. So if you post all day about redacting Henry Kissinger on hexbear, you might want to turn your computer off before you get undressed.
my car isnt a manual, was made in the past ten years, and isnt able to spy on me. Most cars that could connect to a satellite/cell tower probably need a subscription to do so. My phone could spy on me i guess, but not the car itself. Recommending manual transmissions is silly anymore. Automatics are more fuel efficient now too. Plus manuals are disappearing. There are 95 new manual cars within a 50 mile radius of my location, and about 11,000 automatic/CVT. For used cars made since 2013 there is 400+ manuals an about 24,000 auto/cvt near me.
Extra point: If one can manage to get a car made 2013 or later, they should, because that it when side airbags were made mandatory. Rear view camera was made mandatory in 2014.
The over reliance on this type of surveillance has two problems.
First, agencies have too much data. There are solutions to soft through all of that noise but it makes it very difficult to casually catch something you’re not actively searching for.
Second, because everyone is painfully aware of technology able to spy on you now, and most law enforcement relies too heavily on subpoenas of data from these devices rather than active taps, it is far easier to avoid surveillance when you want privacy.
PS: Keep an old car (or motorcycle) in working condition. Manual transmission or kick start is best
That’s where all the machine learning and data mining research comes in. Want to automatically tell which users are of note? Apply some NLP models for that. Too much footage compared to storage? There are algorithms to determine which sections of the footage are relevant enough to keep. Metadata also helps, but now a lot of research is dedicated from creating some sort of summary metadata for loads of unstructured data.
That’s just wrong and I have no idea why you think that. In the USA, the government can issue a gag order to prevent the companies from even acknowledging they’ve been subpoena’d, there’ve been multiple cases of Amazon or Meta providing data to the police without being coerced into it, and the vast majority of the internet is built on tracking and untrustworthy proprietary software. You might want to look into fingerprinting. It also doesn’t matter too much if the data ever gets to the government, as if these corporations couldn’t do fishy stuff with your data themselves in case the NSA/FBI/CIA were too much of a hassle.
Every proprietary OS has backdoors implanted into it, Google doesn’t even pretend they don’t read your emails, and apparently first world countries have company-owned cameras all over the place. Sure, there might be ways to degoogle your phone, use Tor and VPNs in a FOSS-only Linux distribution while self-hosting everything, but that’s not necessarily easy by itself, much less in case you also still want to remain connected to normal people who use WhatsApp.
Snowdens leaks revealed that the NSA was collecting basically all the fucking data in the world. The speculation then was that, unless they were looking into you already (in which case, in say an equivalent situation in the 60s, your house would be bugged anyway), then no-one would ever see that data - so effectively nothing had really changed. As the user below points out, with AI they will now certainly be pre-emptively selecting people to watch from the data based on their characteristics. It would be impossible for humans to sort through so much data to do that, buts it’s easy for AI. So if you post all day about redacting Henry Kissinger on hexbear, you might want to turn your computer off before you get undressed.
my car isnt a manual, was made in the past ten years, and isnt able to spy on me. Most cars that could connect to a satellite/cell tower probably need a subscription to do so. My phone could spy on me i guess, but not the car itself. Recommending manual transmissions is silly anymore. Automatics are more fuel efficient now too. Plus manuals are disappearing. There are 95 new manual cars within a 50 mile radius of my location, and about 11,000 automatic/CVT. For used cars made since 2013 there is 400+ manuals an about 24,000 auto/cvt near me.
Extra point: If one can manage to get a car made 2013 or later, they should, because that it when side airbags were made mandatory. Rear view camera was made mandatory in 2014.