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#1. Of course, the largest of the dragnets appear to be those operated by the U.S. government. In

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#2. it is not clear that the government needed dragnets to catch Zazi. If Zazi was e-mailing with terrorists under surveillance, a search warrant would have sufficed to capture his communications. Similarly,

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#3. did highlight the case of Najibullah Zazi. In 2009, Zazi was arrested just days before he and friends were allegedly planning to carry out a suicide bombing in the New York City subway. According to Alexander, Zazi was swept up in a dragnet called "Operation High-Rise." The

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#4. Dragnets that indiscriminately sweep up personal data fall squarely into the gray area between what is legal and what is socially acceptable.

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#5. Location is also predictive. Researchers at Microsoft found that location data can be used to predict fairly accurately where people will be located in the future.

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#6. Highly-automated tools and techniques cannot be easily applied to the much more difficult problem of detecting and preempting a terrorist attack, and success in doing so may not be possible at all.

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#7. Pseudonymity is key to our online privacy.

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#8. And SpiderOak passed the mud-puddle test.

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#9. Dragnets that scoop up information indiscriminately about everyone in their path used to be rare; police

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#10. Is mass surveillance worth it when its fiercest advocates can only say that it "contributed to our understanding" of cases "at the margins"?

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#11. Gathering that much information gives them power over everybody.

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#12. the prices seem to reflect how far Staples believes the user lives from a competitor's store. Staples confirmed that it varies prices by a number of factors but declined to be specific.

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#13. In 1989, roughly one in fifty East Germans between the ages of eighteen and eighty worked for the Stasi in some capacity.

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#14. So far, I was mostly using tools from people I knew or tools that were well established. I knew and trusted the technologists at the Electronic Frontier Foundation who made the HTTPS Everywhere software. Little Snitch was a well-known program. Similarly, 1Password was well established.

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#15. The Transparent Society:

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#16. Unlike consumers' shopping habits and financial fraud, terrorism does not occur with enough frequency to enable the creation of valid predictive models," Jonas

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#17. speculated that cameras are effective only when they are actively monitored by law enforcement agents, who act quickly upon the information obtained by the cameras.

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#18. In a culture where people judge each other as much by their digital footprints as by their real-life personalities, it's an act of faith to opt out of sharing your data.

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