Some of the more recent disclosures about just how wildly unsecured your personal data is caught everyone off guard - including some of the major governments around the world. Most people had suspected that the powers that be were monitoring Internet and cell phone traffic without ever admitting to it, but the recent release of extremely controversial documents to that effect has led most people to believe that every move they make online is being monitored by somebody.
Now unfortunately we come to the reality that any government's greed for information, and their almost incredible levels of paranoia, means that they're obviously going to continue to ramp up their monitoring of all the Internet traffic they can get their hands on.
Now the question is just how much of your data can "Big Brother" really see? You see what most of the conspiracy theorists are missing out on is the devil in the details of online surveillance programs such as Prism, in that it only scans metadata, or the header information on whatever you're looking at online. Then you need to factor in that "Big Brother" is not capable of monitoring every single piece of information passing through the Internet each day - there are literally hundreds of billions of emails and instant messages sent and received each day globally and the manpower/computing power to monitor, analyse and disseminate all of that data doesn't exist at the moment.
The scale of this task is simply so enormous that you'd need to dedicate thousands of people and a handful of quantum computers (which don't exist) to sifting through all this data. Of course then there's the fact that most of this data is of no use to "Big Brother", or anyone else, so the time spent monitoring it is wasted.
The reality here is that governments can and will be actively monitoring people, groups or countries of interest - especially foreign governments, but as for you and me there's very little we'd be doing which would be interesting enough to catch their attention... or at least you should hope so!
Now unfortunately we come to the reality that any government's greed for information, and their almost incredible levels of paranoia, means that they're obviously going to continue to ramp up their monitoring of all the Internet traffic they can get their hands on.
Now the question is just how much of your data can "Big Brother" really see? You see what most of the conspiracy theorists are missing out on is the devil in the details of online surveillance programs such as Prism, in that it only scans metadata, or the header information on whatever you're looking at online. Then you need to factor in that "Big Brother" is not capable of monitoring every single piece of information passing through the Internet each day - there are literally hundreds of billions of emails and instant messages sent and received each day globally and the manpower/computing power to monitor, analyse and disseminate all of that data doesn't exist at the moment.
The scale of this task is simply so enormous that you'd need to dedicate thousands of people and a handful of quantum computers (which don't exist) to sifting through all this data. Of course then there's the fact that most of this data is of no use to "Big Brother", or anyone else, so the time spent monitoring it is wasted.
The reality here is that governments can and will be actively monitoring people, groups or countries of interest - especially foreign governments, but as for you and me there's very little we'd be doing which would be interesting enough to catch their attention... or at least you should hope so!
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