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I've just watched an interesting video by a commentator I half follow. It starts off fairly tamely with speculation about how much interested parties might be able to determine about you through your use of social media and how this information is/might be exploited for commercial advantage.
The parts that interested me particularly, however, are those that confirmed (in Germany at least) the use of high-frequency broadcasts on commerical premises that allow location tracking quite apart from the signal infornation your phone network may retain.
He then gets into the idea that phone calls themselves (the audio content) are now capable of being scanned for key terms in order to target and tailor your exposure and suceptibility to marketing. I forget the name of the Amazon product that already utilises such technology, but suffice to say I am not surprised by wider and more covert usage.
Finally (and most vaguely), he mentions the existence of technology that may be capable of identifying the device/individual that produced an image based on the pixel-footprint of a smudged lens. From this, it is claimed, you can deduce who is sending and receiving photographs from whom and have circumstantial evidence that two individuals are connected--even when no faces appear. This last technique sounds very much like the kind of trick that has long been supposed to have been in use by intelligence agencies conducting terrorism investigations.
Have a watch:
(The creator is not a known 'conspiracy theorist')
The parts that interested me particularly, however, are those that confirmed (in Germany at least) the use of high-frequency broadcasts on commerical premises that allow location tracking quite apart from the signal infornation your phone network may retain.
He then gets into the idea that phone calls themselves (the audio content) are now capable of being scanned for key terms in order to target and tailor your exposure and suceptibility to marketing. I forget the name of the Amazon product that already utilises such technology, but suffice to say I am not surprised by wider and more covert usage.
Finally (and most vaguely), he mentions the existence of technology that may be capable of identifying the device/individual that produced an image based on the pixel-footprint of a smudged lens. From this, it is claimed, you can deduce who is sending and receiving photographs from whom and have circumstantial evidence that two individuals are connected--even when no faces appear. This last technique sounds very much like the kind of trick that has long been supposed to have been in use by intelligence agencies conducting terrorism investigations.
Have a watch:
(The creator is not a known 'conspiracy theorist')