That is possible, and why I thought they could be unwilling participants. If I can access your photos on your phone and who owns the phone and what social media profiles that phone visits and where that phone goes and who that phone interacts with. I don’t really need the phones facial recognition data. If I have your name and a bunch of your photos to reference I can use the cameras and facial recognition tech that I did have access too to get everything I need. Plus some new phones have finger print readers and almost everything has voice recognition.
Or it will: From the business insider article I posted earlier about in-q-tel
>>>Apple has Siri; Microsoft has Cortana; Amazon has Alexa.
MindMeld is providing the voice commands for everyone else.
Backed by Google Ventures and Samsung Ventures, among others, MindMeld offers the tech that allows more than 1,200 companies to put voice commands into their apps.
“And we’re still just scratching the surface,” said Founder and CEO Tim Tuttle.
In-Q-Tel invested in 2014<<<
I was involved with a company that sold SEO and targeted advertising online, like when you go to Amazon to look at something and then that something is a banner ad on every other website you go visit.
We had a pharma client I told them we could target advertise blood pressure meds to those that take blood pressure meds, one of the doctor’s in the meeting called me a liar that was impossible due to HIPAA laws. I told him a story. Imagine you walk into a pharmacy you walk up to the counter and fill your prescription pharmacist goes to computer and removes 50 pills from inventory (data point one) I compare that to the data of which phone ip addresses were in proximity to the stores wifi server when that request was made (data point 2) I save that info and cross reference it against which phones were In the store the next time the meds were bought and the next (data points 3+4) now I do the same thing when the medicine is paid for at the counter. Now I have enough data to send an ad to just the phone that was at the store when the meds were taken out of inventory and paid for. And I don’t even have to know your name, your credit card info or any personal data that most people would worry about keeping secure or private. And I can begin to make estimates and predictions, for example those 50 pills will probably last 50 days so I can predict when they will need to make that purchase again and only advertise when it will be most effective. And I can do that with basic technology and public data. Never mind what govco. would have access too like recorded future and who knows what else that is still secret.
https://www.wired.com/2010/07/exclusive-google-cia/
THE INVESTMENT ARMS of the CIA and Google are both backing a company that monitors the web in real time — and says it uses that information to predict the future.
The company is called Recorded Future, and it scours tens of thousands of websites, blogs and Twitter accounts to find the relationships between people, organizations, actions and incidents — both present and still-to-come. The idea is to figure out for each incident who was involved, where it happened and when it might go down. Recorded Future then plots that chatter, showing online “momentum” for any given event.
“The cool thing is, you can actually predict the curve, in many cases,” says company CEO Christopher Ahlberg, a former Swedish Army Ranger with a PhD in computer science. Which naturally makes the 16-person Cambridge, Massachusetts, firm attractive to Google Ventures, the search giant’s investment division, and to In-Q-Tel, which handles similar duties for the CIA and the wider intelligence community.
While PROmis is historical in nature it sounds like the latest tools using similar datasets are more predictive. PROmis was supposed to be used for investigative work and intel. Sounds like technologists have moved to marketing.
Great post. Most people don’t have a good handle on how much data can be collected for close to free, and aggregated for close to free.
In-Q-Tel is only peripherally connected to the Q drops in that one Anon thinks it might be related and Q listed his comment in a non-responsive, zero content reply. There is only the content of the Anon’s comment in which he refers to In-Q-Tel as a place the subject once worked. It is too tenuous to be included in my opinion. There are more direct connections such as Keyhole which became GoogleEarth in that Anon’s commentary that may have been what brought Q’s attention to that Anon’s comment than In-Q-Tel. I have been watching later drops for any indication to raise the bar as to what was of importance.
So far nothing has been raised to give anything there any more importance than any other item. Until one of them does, I don’t think any of them have enough importance to single any one of them out to include it.