Actually, that is almost what the NSA program is doing, adopting the tactics of web marketers to find terrorists. The reason it isn’t as effective is not because the NSA can’t duplicate the tactics of the marketers, it’s because they are not allowed to duplicate all those tactics. They can’t, for example, try to finagle ways to put tracking cookies on everyone’s computer, or try to deceive us into installing tracking software on our machines. There are limits on how much data they can grab and keep indiscriminately too.
So, if we allowed them even more unrestricted surveillance, they’d be just as effective as marketers, but they’d also be much more destructive. Marketers just use their power to annoy us, but the government wouldn’t stop at that.
I disagree. Marketers could segment the terrorists without the tools you mention, just with the data that our moronic fedgov counterterrorism nitwits say is not enough.
Yet you maintain that even thinking obama had anything to do with Hastings’ death is just plain silly.
Interesting.