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In late September, 2016, Google delivered a new messaging service, Allo, they intend as a competitor to similar products such as WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. Whistleblower Edward Snowden promptly responded, on Twitter, with denouncements of Allo, to his 2 million plus followers, that Allo is "a Google app that records every message you ever send and makes it available to police upon request." [Snowden himself follows only one account: the NSA.]
Posting 'In Their Face' the Freedoms of Humanity, and the Constitution, of which Licensed Hoodlums wipe their asses.
Snowden refers to Allo as “Google Surveillance” because the new service stores all non-incognito messages by default, retaining them until they’re deleted by the user, something many, and perhaps most users, will not have done during the tenure of their account use. While Google claims this improves the service’s smart-reply feature, it also means that standard Allo messages will be accessible to legal requests from law enforcement [licensed hoodlums] by default. Whereas Snowden is certain that function serves another purpose as well: “Thinking about Allo? Last year, our secret court approved 100% of requests for surveillance. They would cover Allo.”
Big Brother is Watching!
If you prefer conspicuous, or stealth exhibitionism, even to Big Brother, more power to you. But if you'd prefer to keep your private messages private, inaccessible to the nefarious shenanigans of licensed hoodlums, Mr Snowden advises using Signal Messenger.
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A multinational
security firm has secretly developed software capable of
tracking people's movements and predicting future behaviour by mining data from
social networking
websites.
A video
obtained by the Guardian [see below] reveals how an "extreme-scale analytics" system
created by Raytheon, the world's fifth largest defence contractor, can gather
vast amounts of information about people from websites including Facebook,
Twitter and Foursquare.
Raytheon says it has not sold the software – named Riot, or Rapid Information
Overlay Technology – to any clients. But the Massachusetts-based company has acknowledged the technology was
shared with US government and industry as part of a joint research and
development effort, in 2010, to help build a national security system capable of
analysing "trillions of entities" from cyberspace.
The sophisticated technology demonstrates how the same social networks that
helped propel the Arab Spring revolutions can be transformed into a "Google for
spies" and tapped as a means of monitoring and control. Using Riot it is possible to gain an entire snapshot of a person's life –
their friends, the places they visit charted on a map – in little more than a
few clicks of a button. In the video obtained by the Guardian, it is explained by Raytheon's
"principal investigator" Brian Urch that photographs users post on social
networks sometimes contain latitude and longitude details – automatically
embedded by smartphones within "exif header data." Riot pulls out this information, showing not only the photographs posted onto
social networks by individuals, but also the location at which the photographs
were taken. "We're going to track one of our own employees," Urch says in the video,
before bringing up pictures of "Nick," a Raytheon staff member used as an
example target. With information gathered from social networks, Riot quickly
reveals Nick frequently visits Washington Nationals Park, where on one occasion
he snapped a photograph of himself posing with a blonde haired woman. "We know where Nick's going, we know what Nick looks like," Urch explains,
"now we want to try to predict where he may be in the future." Riot can display on a spider diagram the associations and relationships
between individuals online by looking at who they have communicated with over
Twitter. It can also mine data from Facebook and sift GPS location information
from Foursquare, a mobile phone app used by more than 25 million people to alert
friends of their whereabouts. The Foursquare data can be used to display, in
graph form, the top 10 places visited by tracked individuals and the times at
which they visited them. The video shows that Nick, who posts his location regularly on Foursquare,
visits a gym frequently at 6am early each week. Urch quips: "So if you ever did
want to try to get hold of Nick, or maybe get hold of his laptop, you might want
to visit the gym at 6am on a Monday."
However, Ginger McCall,
an attorney at the Washington-based Electronic Privacy Information Centre, said the
Raytheon technology raised concerns about how troves of user data could be
covertly collected without oversight or regulation.
"Social networking sites are often not transparent about what information is
shared and how it is shared," McCall said. "Users may be posting information
that they believe will be viewed only by their friends, but instead, it is being
viewed by government officials or pulled in by data collection services like the
Riot search." Raytheon, which made sales worth an estimated $25bn (£16bn) in 2012, did not
want its Riot demonstration video to be revealed on the grounds that it says it
shows a "proof of concept" product that has not been sold to any clients. Jared Adams, a spokesman for Raytheon's intelligence and information systems
department, said in an email: "Riot is a big data analytics system design we are
working on with industry, national labs and commercial partners to help turn
massive amounts of data into useable information to help meet our nation's
rapidly changing security needs. "Its innovative privacy features are the most robust that we're aware of,
enabling the sharing and analysis of data without personally identifiable
information [such as social security numbers, bank or other financial account
information] being disclosed." In December, Riot was featured in a newly published patent Raytheon is
pursuing for a system designed to gather data on people from social networks,
blogs and other sources to identify whether they should be judged a security
risk. In April, Riot was scheduled to be showcased at a US government and industry
national security conference for secretive, classified innovations, where it was
listed under the category "big data – analytics, algorithms." According to records published by the US government's trade controls
department, the technology has been designated an "EAR99" item under export
regulations, which means it "can be shipped without a licence to most
destinations under most circumstances".
How Raytheon software tracks you online
In this video obtained by the Guardian, Raytheon's
'principal investigator' Brian Urch explains how the Rapid Information Overlay
Technology (Riot) software uses photographs on social networks. These images
sometimes contain latitude and longitude details – automatically embedded by
smartphones within so-called 'exif header data'. Riot pulls out this
information, analysing not only the photographs posted by individuals, but also
the location where these images were taken.
In late September, 2016, Google delivered a new messaging service, Allo, they intend as a competitor to similar products such as WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger.
If you prefer conspicuous, or stealth exhibitionism, even to Big Brother, more power to you. But if you'd prefer to keep your private messages private, inaccessible to the nefarious shenanigans of licensed hoodlums, Mr Snowden advises using Signal Messenger. 
