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The most interesting and disturbing part of this software is its ability to use social data to figure out where you are likely going to be and when. Using social networks like Twitter, Facebook, and Google+, these tools can develop a sophisticated psychological profile of users. Because the majority of social networking is now done from mobile devices, they can also determine where you typically are on a current day, and where you will probably go next (this type of technology is already publicly available in products such as Google Now personal assistant). Layer on top of this what we already know about the close relationship between mobile providers and the government, and it’s a safe bet that if the government wants to know where you and what you’re up to right now, they know.
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Operation Earnest voice is built to allow 50 real users to manage 10 fake accounts each. These 500 accounts appear to be from anywhere in the world the user would like, “replete with background , history, supporting details, and cyber presences that are technically, culturally and geographically consistent.” What it does, effectively, is create a network of online personas that, when working in a coordinated fashion, can control the tone and direction of just about any online conversation.
These accounts could have some very useful applications outside of the stated goal; they could be used to help monitor social networking sites, and they would be quite powerful in influencing social movements through hashtags and what’s hot features on twitter and Google+. Also, the personas could quite effectively drown out viewpoints that the government would like to suppress. By dominating forums and engaging in some basic SEO, government propaganda would be hard to distinguish from the truth.
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