So, on an unrelated topic, whats the latest word on our government being able to get cellular data without a warrant?
Requires a warrant, it was ruled akin to a locked briefcase iirc.
Sure - if they want your cellphone specifically.
The way the TOS are written anymore, if your data passes through a company's servers, you've therefore given them permission to own it and use it as they see fit.
The government won't
need a warrant. They can just nicely ask Google for access to Google's data.
Google Now will get smarter as it learns your habits. I was visiting my Mother In Law on the other side of the state every Wednesday, but it took Google a few weeks to realize this and start giving me traffic estimations for my MIL's house as well as home on Wednesdays.
An XKCD What-If had a link to
WhatPulse, a nifty piece of software to analyze user habits.
Some interesting things are the heat maps for the keyboard(1) and mouse clicks(3). (It's not very good with dual monitors though, as it overlays the two screens into one.)
So it lets you see the frequency with which the various keys get used (most days, my spacebar is about 10% of all keystrokes, though some days it's even with Ctrl, at 5% each). I also do most of my clicking within several square inches of the middle of the screen, with a few scattered bright spots elsewhere.
But imagine if a basic supercomputer could analyze a heat map of your life. It might not
know what you're going to do, but what if it could figure it out to 98% probability? When does it start getting really creepy? Or dangerous? Do you know what they're going to do with that data, or who might want it and why?
They can spy on me all they want.
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