Posted on 08/14/2019 7:24:49 AM PDT by C19fan
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What is the famous saying about Facebook, “You are the product”.
And what you thought was personal and private is being sold.
I used to work for one of the major cell phone companies and their “Law Enforcement Relations” department. Everything you do on your cell phone is tracked and saved, even what towers you are near when you are not using your phone. It’s why I say, if you’re gonna commit a crime or kidnap someone, leave your phone at home.
However, the actual audio content of a phone conversation is NOT saved. They know who you called, where you were when you did it, when the call started and ended, what cell towers you used, etc., but they have no idea what was actually said in the call. That is illegal “wiretapping”. It takes a court order to allow listening in on the content of the call.
Apparently things are different with FaceBook.
But it’s free, and always will be!
When something’s free, ask who pays. Ultimate, you pay. Information about you is taken and sold. Law enforcement loves Facebook, because you have made their job easy for them. All they have to do is log on with the special user name, and they can see all your information, and it’s there in clear black and white, for them to transcribe and arrest you for. It’s there. You wrote it. You can’t deny it. You can’t say that you were kidding. Just like in airports you get arrested for calling out to your friend “Hi, Jack!”
It was on BBC
Well...well
yeeesh! It’s one thing to keep records of data that has been conveyed through your platforms. In fact, many times it’s even required by law.
However, it’s another thing all together to actively convert, transcribe, and catalogue private conversations that are not inherently indexed, searchable, and public.
Emphasis on the word PRIVATE.
This is an active invasion of people’s privacy, in situations where there is a reasonable expectation of privacy (whether legal or not).
Two people, in their own private spaces that are communicating, and the voice data is basically utilizing a conduit. In other words, if both parties are U.S. citizens and engaging in conversation in the privacy of their own homes, on both sides, than the provider of the service has no right to actively PRY into their private communication.
I really don’t care if their motive is as mundane as trying to sell tampon and corn flake ads, these people are evil.
Most private conversations are exceptionally boring. But what this really does is enable them to do more linking and indexing of names and places that are mentioned. My belief is that they are building a very sophisticated map of everyone’s connections to everyone else. This is the kind of information that the NSA needs, maybe. Certain NOT facebook
ehh..there’s a little outfit commonly referred to as “No Such Agency” that is rumored to be able to provide transcripts when properly motivated. That motivation comes “from on high” however..above and beyond from even most elements in the US Gov’mt.
the audio does appear to be retained...
the audio does appear to be retained...
the audio does appear to be retained...
But I’m getting a bit off topic...
“Legally” is a pretty meaningless term when it comes to intelligence agencies that are apparently above the law.
I mean it is illegal for the phone company to save the data. They don’t have databases that do that. Well, to be fair, my info is 8 years old. The empire may have gotten them to save it, but I don’t know of any law passed that allows them to save phone call voice content without a subpoena.
To be clear, there is a difference between “saving” and “sharing” the data. They can save text content, but can’t share it without a subpoena. If technology is all that keeps them from saving voice content, we could be in trouble. That is, saved data allows law enforcement to, for all intents and purposes, go back in time. If they can go back in time and listen to your phone conversations, well, that can be a game changer.
The NSA has backdoors into all their data. The phone companies do not have to save anything, the NSA just takes whatever it wants and stores it in its own databases.
Well, if the NSA is capturing actual call voice data in real time and storing it, that’s on them. And I think that any of them caught doing it should be executed.
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