Post by xboxsignout on Apr 16, 2014 11:54:36 GMT -5
I decided to try and read up on our country's push here in America to open up Internet WiFi and found the following website Honk Kong Government www.gov.hk/en/theme/wifi/program/
They are trying to give everyone Internet access via hotspots at "government buildings".
Obviously the Chinese government will be spying on its peoples internet habits, and we know that more close to home the NSA has in the past tapped into the main bottle neck areas of the Internet and basically recorded all internet users (in America and presumably Canada, et al; web histories and search terms and ips.
If they government does expand internet access here for low-income people I wonder how watched the data/internet traffic will be.
I question that the government knows my income levels, food purchases thru EBT down to the item, times, and money spent; and now they POTENTIALLY will have other things like browsing history, and they defiantly know my phone calls via the free cell phone I got.
Coupled with the EXPLOSION in Drone technology that can digitally watch and record whole urban and rural areas from the sky, they have the ability to track where I go, dates/times I leave my house, what my out door activities consist of, I'd pretty much conclude there is a HUGE benefit from the prospective of data miners in government to enrolling as many of our citizens into some form of government assistance since it opens the door to the other free programs that enable even more government intrusions.
Data mining is basically when you record and expand on internet data you collect on web users. You can extrapolate this data into many different view points that can shed light on many previous unknowns.
And now to see China doing basically the same thing our government is doing, the logical conclusion, or one of them is that its about information awareness.
The lower class historically is a driving force in revolts, so maybe its a way to passively subvert a population from revolt? 1 out of 7 people are considered low-income.
but you make some real striking points in your post.