Google’s Spymasters Are Now Worried About Your Secrets

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“Don’t think the data being collected by autocracies is limited to Facebook posts or Twitter comments,” Schmidt and Cohen warn. “The most important data they will collect in the future is biometric information, which can be used to identify individuals through their unique physical and biological attributes. Fingerprints, photographs and DNA testing are all familiar biometric data types today. ... With cloud computing, it takes just seconds to compare millions of faces. ... By indexing our biometric signatures, some governments will try to track our every move and word, both physically and digitally."

National Security Presidential Directive 59 issued by George W. Bush during his last year in office remains in effect today. Its instruction to government agencies reads: “Through integrated processes and interoperable systems, agencies shall, to the fullest extent permitted by law, make available to other agencies all biometric and associated biographic and contextual information associated with persons for whom there is an articulable and reasonable basis for suspicion that they pose a threat to national security.”

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/05/01-0

теперь еще яснее почему все эти сошл нетворкс и прочие персонал дата шаринг сервисес получают такие огромные инвестиции.

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Ну тот же фейсбук ещё и при этом денег зарабатывает на рекламе и играх нехило как бэ...
А насколько там ФСБ в чужих файлах роется - всё несколько преувеличено. Это довольно нудный и очень редкий процесс на самом деле.