Pending on your circumstances your government law enforcement agencies military or other organizations
may be an active threat to you.
The extent to which you should concern yourself with these types of agents is very individual circumstance
and you may not care at all what your government gets up to on line which means you can pretty much
ignore this section but you might for example be a political decision opposing human rights violations
in your country could be homosexual in a country where that's a crime crime punishable by death or a
journalist with a sensitive package that you need to send or just a regular concerned citizen who would
like their activities and personal information to stay out of the hands of their government.
It is clear from the Edward Snowden revelations and other whistleblowers that active mass surveillance
is happening across many countries if not most countries plus active attempts to hack targets to gather
information.
An agreement does exist between the United Kingdom.
United States Australia Canada and New Zealand to cooperatively collect analyze and share intelligence.
This agreement is referred to as the UK USA agreement.
These members are known as the Five Eyes.
Their focus is to gather and analyze intelligence globally which includes using the Internet for mass
surveillance to avoid breaking domestic laws by spying on their own citizens members instead monitor
each other's citizens and share that intelligence with each other.
The Five Eyes cooperate with other third party countries to share intelligence to forming two of the
groups.
These are referred to as the nine eyes and the 14 eyes the Five Eyes and these third party countries
can and do spy on each other.
The nine I's or Denmark France Netherlands and Norway the 14 eyes are Belgium Germany Italy Spain and
Sweden.
Billions of dollars per year is spent by agencies such as the NSA GCH que FBI to develop purchase implement
and operate systems for surveillance.
Examples are carnivore eschelon and Nourrisson insight used to intercept and analyze the immense amounts
of data that traverse the Internet and telephone systems.
So give me some concrete examples of how this could include you.
Governments can listen in on your cell satellite and mobile phones use voice recognition to scan mobile
networks read your e-mails and text messages censor Web pages.
Track a citizens movement using GPS or their mobile phone or the mobile network.
It can even change e-mail content while it is on route to you.
They can secretly turn on webcams and Bill into personal computers turn on microphones in Mobile and
cell phones that are not in use and all this information is filtered and organized on such a massive
scale that it can be used to spy on every person in the entire country.
And actually there's a new facility known as the Utah Data Center which has been built for storing the
enormous amounts of data.
The plan structure provides one to 1.5 million square feet is projected to cost somewhere between 1.5
and 2 billion dollars.
The completed facility is expected to require 65 megawatts of electricity costing about 40 million dollars
per year.
An article by Forbes estimate the storage capacity as being between 3 and 12 exabytes and public expression
claims up all words ever spoken by human beings could be stored in approximately 5 exercise data according
to Wired magazine the data center is alleged to be able to process all forms of communication including
the complete contents of private emails cell and mobile phone calls and internet searches as well as
all types of personal data trails park in overseas travel itineraries book store purchases and other
digital pocket litter so you could just assume that all communication is under active surveillance which
would include all your internet or phone usage.
So some questions you might ask yourself in order to consider if you want to secure yourself from this.
Do you do anything online that you wouldn't like to be kept on the record and made public.
Will the many organizations companies and individual people can view and process their personal data
always have your best interests at heart.
And for all time will they keep this data safe and secure.
Do you want your government monitoring your internet use.
Does mass surveillance increase the security of your nation improve society and is massive violence
worth the price of losing personal privacy.
Your opinions will vary and so therefore will your requirements.
The types of security you need to maintain your privacy online.