Pres. Barack Obama made clear in his speech January 17 that he has no plans to cut back on the intelligence community's efforts to gather and analyze large
amounts of electronic communications.
Not exact matches
Issued this April, it claims a computing device configured to facilitate organization
of streaming data, the device having a processor; a memory in
electronic communication with the processor; and instructions stored in the memory which are executable to request a first stream
of data from a first source via a streaming data service; define an
amount of data to be received from the first data stream; receive the data from the data stream; identify streaming data from a second source comprising a different type
of data via the streaming data service; correlate and combine the streams
of data to increase the utility
of the first stream
of data; and publish the combine data as a combined data stream to the streaming data service.
The literal explosion in the
amount of electronically stored information which is produced today and the increasing use
of more complex
electronic document and
communication technologies (such as internal blogs, collaborative shares, internet and voice over internet protocol (VOIP)-RRB- only serve to magnify the issue.
Amongst other things and in addition to the indiscriminate interception
of communications, the Investigatory Powers Act allows the security agencies to hack computers and other
electronic devices on a large scale, harvesting potentially huge
amounts of personal data from individuals who are not suspected
of any criminal behaviour.
People have never spoken on the telephone more, and particularly at a time when they also send and receive massive
amounts of e-mail and other
electronic communications.
But in some cases, only a very limited
amount of information can be displayed via
electronic communication; consider posts on Twitter.