Datagate: the game of the barrel discharge!
E’ easy to beat the mea culpa on the chest of others.
This is what the NSA is doing through its spokesperson Keith Alexander!
Now the services of individual European countries are brought up, which according to Alexander, they provided the information directly… ( refers to this article on the Corriere delle Comunicazioni )
Even , James Clapper hastens to specify, director of 16 American entities dealing with security ( including NSA ) , all countries spy on political leaders starting with European ones (!)….how to say :"Common pain, half joy ".
If the espionage activity was truly aimed at counter-terrorism, there would be no need to spy on EVERYONE, CONTINAUTIVELY!
It assumes that, once a "thorough check" has been carried out ( well beyond metadata ), attention should be focused only on real suspects.
Instead, from the information offered by Snoweden , all communications taking place in the various countries are continuously recorded ( from phone calls, mail, sms, faxes and internet traffic ).
Even the Pope was spied on and despite the denials, news is circulating that the servers of Yahoo and Google, are constantly "available" to the NSA archives.
It is rumored that the NSA, in collaboration with the British agency of the same name GCHQ, is able to copy the ENTIRE DATA STREAM on the optical carriers that convey information between the American OTT datacenters in Silicon Valley ( practically all of them!!!!! Source : article in CED magazine ).
in conclusion, it is certain that everything is translated into bits, be spied on!
But what would be the reason to justify continued espionage?
Not one, but various , among which: industrial espionage, unfair competition, commercial profiling, control over mass dynamics, control over personal dynamics, control of political dynamics etc.. etc.
And however much the OTTs are trying to stay in the shadows in this global scandal, the version they try to offer to the market is purely laughable, saying that the requests prevented by the authorities can be counted "on the fingers of one hand" ( such as try, awkwardly, to do Apple as reported in this article on the Corriere Delle Comunicazioni ).
ALL OTT, offering “generously” platforms for e-mail, they actually manage by name and on behalf of the users, the immense archive that refers to the e-mails, the data that is collected by apps on mobile phones, and speech recognition programs ( it's Siri, per Apple, the counterpart for Android, and others always belonging to an OTT ).
That said, they also have all the keys to enter the individual accounts… .in short, when OTTs deny violating user privacy and refuse to collect information, they are denying an incontrovertible fact: as if the hotel owner does not have the passpartout to enter the hotel rooms ... officially to do only the cleaning, but when the staff , come in, can't help but see the color of underwear left on a chair or bed ...
All the more so that every time you do any research , you are there for at least the next two weeks, banners and advertisements regarding, "coincidentally", precisely the products or services previously sought ...
If democracy had a thermometer, it would definitely not be the internet, as it is conceived today. Rather, an aberrant fact is looming: ICT is destroying democracy.
In this article in the Corriere delle Comunicazioni a thesis is proposed that makes one shudder: total control of information sources passed off as free and independent, which instead belong to a few "puppeteers" who have the purpose of controlling everything and everyone.
ICT and the internet that allows the exchange of information, they are just tools that can be used for better or for worse.
Unfortunately, the very structure of the network and the equipment (hw) offered on the market, have been "molded" to facilitate the malicious use that leads to the abuse of a sacrosanct right of every citizen of the world: confidentiality!
But the scenario of technology is envisaging an evolution that will surely be unwelcome to those who have decided at the table how the technology itself should evolve ...
The development models adopted by companies that have monopolized the production of technology , they have saturated the market with unsustainable commercial obsolescence.
Noted that the same subjects are not able to change the development model, they can only collapse and leave the stage to those who propose solutions truly desired by the market and by society.
Old Europe still has much to teach others and to do so!