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15:08 | 18-06-2013 | Politics, Privacy, Security | 1 Comment
с другой стороны, там еще много подводных камней:
Dianne Feinstein, a Democrat from liberal Northern California and the chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, assured the public earlier today that the government’s secret snooping into the phone records of Americans was perfectly fine, because the information it obtained was only “meta,” meaning it excluded the actual content of the phone conversations.
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The gist of the defense was that, in contrast to what took place under the Bush Administration, this form of secret domestic surveillance was legitimate because Congress had authorized it, and the judicial branch had ratified it, and the actual words spoken by one American to another were still private. So how bad could it be?
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“The public doesn’t understand,” [former Sun Microsystems engineer Susan Landau] told me, speaking about so-called metadata. “It’s much more intrusive than content.” She explained that the government can learn immense amounts of proprietary information by studying “who you call, and who they call. If you can track that, you know exactly what is happening—you don’t need the content.”
[…] примере хочет убедиться, что такое PRISM, и как работает сбор метаданных, пожалуйста, есть чудесный эксперимент, […]