Even as far back as the 1960s every phone call that originated from or to overseas was recorded.
let’s pick a day and call our friends and use words like bomb, jihad, assasinate, pressure-cooker, dirka-dirka etc. and crash all their ai software made by china me no likey
Probably, but the phone providers have the info. Maybe the meta data, but storing ALL speech on phones would big a huge undertaking.
I think that you also have to consider the possibility that they depend upon companies like AT&T, Google, Yahoo, You Tube, etc, to store data.
I was with South Central Bell in New Orleans in the 60s. We were already saving that kind of data for that city.
Why yes they do. They built a new complex not far from Salt Lake city just for that job.
Yes, not only is it possible, it’s happening now.
But they don’t store it ALL forever. They purge after about 3 years if nothing comes up on a particular point of interest.
If they are interested in something, they keep it as long as they want it.
Oh, and it’s been going on for decades.
It used to be computers triggering on “key words” and “key persons” that would initiate a recording. This due to the cost of massive storage for it all...especially before voice was digitized.
But as the internet emerged, so did big bandwidth and cheap, massive storage. They grew up together.
And they just recorded this as I hit enter.
Thanks to your government, they just keep on and on. You cant make this up!!They pissed on your rights!!
Here’s a very mean practical-joke to pull on the IC.
Take an old hard drive and wipe it clean.
Then mail it to them with no explanation whatsoever.
It will drive them nuts, they will spend a lot of time playing with the new toy.
Ever heard of Echelon?
In the 80s and beyond, all electronically transmitted messages were recorded and analyzed. Worldwide.
We had an agreement with Britain, Germany, Australia, etc to not record the conversations of our own citizens, but to report to each other if anything nefarious was happening in our partners nations. That avoided the charges of spying on our own.
Sound familiar?
Back when this site began and I had my original username, we enjoyed throwing lots of the keywords used in those searches as our signature on posts, in the hopes of overwhelming them with data. Yeah, a waste of time. But fun.
piece of cake,, they have taps on every major comm link globally.. cables , towers, you name it.. a bear can’t poop in the woods without them knowing it and recording it. stinks, huh? ;-)
Tell me that sign in front of the data center is photo-shopped. Please.
A person at no such agency that I know says yes.
An inevitability. And we may be trailing other governments in this area.
The issue is Constitutionality, and we now have the evidence the Democrats have willingly and surreptitiously breached the Law of all U.S. law.
I have a university colleague who has a son-in-law that works for the NSA outside of D.C. that does this. According to him and what his son-in-law has claimed and asserted, yes, indeed they have the capability.
The author obviously doesn't know what he's talking about.
Regards,
25 years ago I bought 11 pallets of 1gig hard drives and had to call a friend .
“Who the he’ll needs a 1gig drive” I asked.
Be pointed me in the right direction and I was able to sell them for a Yuge profit.
Now they store exabytes...like you said ...
The conversations are turned into text. How much storage space does text take?
Article IV
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
What part of this don’t they understand?
There are two reasons for this - the first is for nefarious purposes, power and control. It is one thing to actually store this data - and it is quite something else to be able to retrieve and analyze it. AI is playing a much larger role in that aspect, with indexation, retrieval and projection/prediction as its main function.
The second reason has some interesting implications - it is a backup. Think of it as information equivalent to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.
These are suppositions on my part, but, my bonafides include 40 years in IT engineering and sysdev (the last 17 with the preeminent database software corp.), CISSP, DBA, etc.