MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
By Philip Bump, The Atlantic Wire, July 17, 2013
As an aside during testimony on Capitol Hill today, a National Security Agency representative rather casually indicated that the government looks at data from a universe of far, far more people than previously indicated [....]
For a sense of scale, researchers at the University of Milan found in 2011 that everyone on the Internet was, on average, 4.74 steps away from anyone else. The NSA explores relationships up to three of those steps. (See our conversation with the ACLU's Alex Abdo on this.)
Inglis' admission didn't register among the members of Congress present, but immediately resonated with privacy advocates online:
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Comments
by artappraiser on Wed, 07/17/2013 - 7:02pm
Slightly related, state governments with US grants slurp up license tags by the millions, with <1:100 correlation to suspicion - through sharing agreements might keep data forever. Combine that with "3 hop queries" elsewhere, & a variety of other big data troves...
by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 07/18/2013 - 3:13am