A few reasons the public might care about license-plate tracking
Commonly cited incidents that raise doubts about the growing use of license-plate scanners.
A few reasons the public might care about license-plate tracking
Commonly cited incidents that raise doubts about the growing use of license-plate scanners.
U.S. Intelligence Unit Aims to Build a ‘Data Eye in the Sky’
More than 60 years ago, in his “Foundation” series, the science fiction novelist Isaac Asimov invented a new science — psychohistory — that combined mathematics and psychology to predict the future.
Now social scientists are trying to mine the vast resources of the Internet — Web searches and Twitter messages, Facebook and blog posts, the digital location trails generated by billions of cellphones — to do the same thing.
The most optimistic researchers believe that these storehouses of “big data” will for the first time reveal sociological laws of human behavior — enabling them to predict political crises, revolutions and other forms of social and economic instability, just as physicists and chemists can predict natural phenomena.
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What are the differences between Mark Zuckerberg and me? I give private information on corporations to you for free, and I’m a villain. Zuckerberg gives your private information to corporations for money and he’s Man of the Year.
If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy.
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