> personally, i’m waiting for the day a judge grants a warrant to surveil a target and the prosecutor presses a button, enters the warrant id, and the entire life history of the target, and associates, is opened for inspection. all phone calls, dinners, shopping trips, even stop lights (cameras capturing who you’re with) will be checked for anything relevant ... or damning.
They’re going to be very bored then. They still can’t top God’s surveillance system though...: )
you think they’d have to sift through the data manually? LOL
no.
voice recognition will find key phrases they’re interested in. it’ll feed into a phrase database to ‘rate’ your conversations and map them through time. this will allow them to see the pattern of rhetoric as it changes. they will also be able to overlay your movements, tracked by your cell phone, with the movements of others to find your acquaintances.
most of this already exists. whether or not its admissible in court is a different issue.
“They’re going to be very bored then”
That’s exactly why data mining is hot technology.