Data and Goliath
Bruce Schneier 2015
A fact-strewn mind dump by Schneier, describing the problem and suggesting political principles and action.
I'm not political or persuasive. I am inventive and clever. I read books like this hoping for clues for the design of spying-resistant architectures, protocols, and software. The facts are useful for that, I will encourage but not actively pursue the politics, though I encourage less-geeky/more-political fellow citizens to do so.
Factoids
p18: 2015 76 exabyte/year - Cisco
p18: storing every US phone call reqiures 300 petabytes, ($30M) per year. Brewster Kahle 2013 Cost to store all US phonecalls made in a year so it could be datamined
p18: Lifelogging US population 2 exabytes ($200M) per year. NSA Bluffdale Utah $1.4B 12 exabytes, third largest.
p18: Xkcd:{!?) Google 15 exabytes 8 exabytes built 2013
p19: Facebook saves everything, Max Schrems Austrian Law Student
p21: Phone metadata very revealing
p26: License plate scanners for repo, Vigilant Solutions Livermore CA, 2.5 billion records, 70M scans/month
p29: Ford surveillance in every car, 2014
p33: Target baby coupons
p37: 117,675 active surveillance targets one day in 2013. 2014 Obama authorized NSA two hop surveillance on phone metadata
p39: Datafencing - who's near a business to deliver an ad
p44: 87% of US can be uniquely identified with ZIP, gender, and D.O.B.
p46: BrightestFlashlightFree for Android - collects location information and sells to advertizers
p48: Dictionary.com 200 tracking cookies - there are browser plugins that monitor cookies (Mozilla's Lightbeam Firefox tool)
p65: Reagan 1981 Executive Order 12333 / USA PATRIOT 2001, Section 215 / Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act 2008 Section 702
p69: UK GCHQ Government Communications Headquarters
p70: China/Microsoft TOM-Skype
p70: India gets decrypts of individual blackberry
p85: NSA TAO Targeted Access Operation Modifies CISCO servers
p91: Government surveilance $72B per year
p94: Drone strikes
p94: China Golden Shield
p113: Google is paid to insert URLs into search results, not just advertising
p129: Algorithmic surveillance "not surveillance until a human being looks at the data", and "dog analogy"