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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬<p>In Memoriam: <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/MarkKlein" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MarkKlein</span></a>, <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/ATT" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ATT</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Whistleblower" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Whistleblower</span></a> Who Revealed <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/NSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NSA</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/MassSpying" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MassSpying</span></a><br />When the New York Times reported in late 2005 that the NSA was engaging in <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/spying" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>spying</span></a> inside the <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>US</span></a>, Mark realized that he had witnessed how it was happening. He also realized that the President was not telling Americans the truth about the program. And, though newly retired, he knew that he had to do something. <br /><a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/memoriam-mark-klein-att-whistleblower-about-nsa-mass-spying" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/memo</span><span class="invisible">riam-mark-klein-att-whistleblower-about-nsa-mass-spying</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>surveillance</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>privacy</span></a></p>
eicker.news tech news<p>»<a href="https://eicker.news/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> and <a href="https://eicker.news/tags/MassSpying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MassSpying</span></a>: Mass spying will change the nature of <a href="https://eicker.news/tags/spying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spying</span></a>. All the data will be saved. It will all be searchable, and understandable, in bulk.« <a href="https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/12/ai-and-mass-spying.html?eicker.news" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">schneier.com/blog/archives/202</span><span class="invisible">3/12/ai-and-mass-spying.html?eicker.news</span></a> <a href="https://eicker.news/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://eicker.news/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>media</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Surveillance</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Spying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Spying</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/MassSpying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MassSpying</span></a>: "It has long been possible to tap someone’s phone or put a bug in their home and/or car, but those things still require someone to listen to and make sense of the conversations. Yes, spyware companies like NSO Group help the government hack into people’s phones, but someone still has to sort through all the conversations. And governments like China could censor social media posts based on particular words or phrases, but that was coarse and easy to bypass. Spying is limited by the need for human labor.</p><p>AI is about to change that. Summarization is something a modern generative AI system does well. Give it an hourlong meeting, and it will return a one-page summary of what was said. Ask it to search through millions of conversations and organize them by topic, and it’ll do that. Want to know who is talking about what? It’ll tell you.</p><p>The technologies aren’t perfect; some of them are pretty primitive. They miss things that are important. They get other things wrong. But so do humans. And, unlike humans, AI tools can be replicated by the millions and are improving at astonishing rates. They’ll get better next year, and even better the year after that. We are about to enter the era of mass spying."<br><a href="https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/12/ai-and-mass-spying.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">schneier.com/blog/archives/202</span><span class="invisible">3/12/ai-and-mass-spying.html</span></a></p>
dwardoric<p>Similarly, mass spying will change the nature of spying. All the data will be saved. It will all be searchable, and understandable, in bulk. Tell me who has talked about a particular topic in the past month, and how discussions about that topic have evolved. Person A did something; check if someone told them to do it.</p><p><a href="https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/12/the-internet-enabled-mass-surveillance-ai-will-enable-mass-spying.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">schneier.com/blog/archives/202</span><span class="invisible">3/12/the-internet-enabled-mass-surveillance-ai-will-enable-mass-spying.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Privacy</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/MassSurveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MassSurveillance</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/MassSpying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MassSpying</span></a></p>