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geneusutwerk  ·  4242 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: So what's the point of a watch list then?

    That database, the Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment, or TIDE, contains about 700,000 names. It is the main repository from which other government watch lists are drawn, including the F.B.I.’s Terrorist Screening Database and the Transportation Security Administration’s “no fly” list.

I think the problem is that it contains almost 700,000 names.





hiss  ·  4242 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Google knows exactly what ads to show me at exactly the right time, and they have a database of hundreds of millions of active users.

(Facebook, not so much, but still).

geneusutwerk  ·  4241 days ago  ·  link  ·  

srsly? And you would be okay with the government collecting all that information on you? Also google ads are relevant but they are easy for them to figure out. If someone is googling for powertools start showing them ads for that.

Do you want the government to start arresting people based on google searches?

I also fairly often get google ads in my gmail that are in Chinese because I have a friend who sends me random chinese IMs that I don't understand.

PS. They are trying to do this

hiss  ·  4241 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think you may have missed my point. I'm not at all okay with the government collecting all that information on me, but until recently I was under the impression that they were, and that it was working... it is clearly not working.

kleinbl00  ·  4242 days ago  ·  link  ·  

One of many, no doubt.