Darwoth wrote:again *******, anything that goes out over the internet be it your stupid texts, your girly voice or your up to date breaking news tweets about your life that nobody cares about IS being stored and passively monitored and it has been since before your dumb ass knew how to **** in the toilet much less use a computer.
there are ACRES worth of server rooms in virginia and maryland that store and catalog all of this "information nobody tracks" for later analysis.
Now you are making fun of yourself Darwoth !
While you both have some valid points, it's both far from reality and straight from the movies.
Software mentioned was/is a system which saves messages containing keywords, it used a standard packet sniffer and straightforward filtering, nothing high-tech there...
Read those large agreements nobody cares about & instinctively being pressed 'i agree' and you will know if that certain game is being watched.
Most of the data being hijacked is because of data interception, 99% of the ISP's have an agreement and allow such companies to sniff packets (not store, but analyze & store if needed) on the fly.
This only works for non-encrypted strings, most of our data is encrypted anyway.
