Data leak reveals China is tracking almost 2.6m people in Xinjiang

Re:Data leak reveals China is tracking almost 2.6m people in... by bigmonads on Sunday February 17, 2019 @11:23AM (#19185181)

Definitely. Remember when the Snowden documents disclosed the Utah facilities keeping ~5 years of every communication record of every person, processed into the most actionable metadata, and the related capabilities to search and correlate the content, interrelationships, and signals implicit across those communications?

This is something that could only be targeted decades ago. Now its cost-admissible to run at scale - and to do so adaptively to improve the methods.

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Re:Data leak reveals China is tracking almost 2.6m people in... by viivaux on Sunday February 17, 2019 @12:39PM (#19185645)

There was a time when your comments here would be discussed and generally agreed with instead of blindly downvoted and removed.

Come to think of it, I can't remember the last time HN had a good discussion about US censorship and surveillance.

Weird.

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Re:Data leak reveals China is tracking almost 2.6m people in... by alexandercrohde on Sunday February 17, 2019 @12:46PM (#19185694)

Well as somebody who is very anti US-monitoring, let me help you understand:

Your comments are so unproductive (i.e. emotional/irrelevant/us-vs-them) that they actually undermine the cause you say you're concerned about. You give the rest of us a bad name.

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Re:Data leak reveals China is tracking almost 2.6m people in... by dang on Monday February 18, 2019 @01:23AM (#19188953)

Would you please stop posting flamewar comments to HN? They only lower the quality of this site even further.

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Re:Data leak reveals China is tracking almost 2.6m people in... by viivaux on Monday February 18, 2019 @07:59AM (#19190323)

There was no legitimate reason to remove this man's comments. He provided a legitimate perspective, and wasn't flaming anyone or being rude.

Defending him was your job, not mine.

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Re:Data leak reveals China is tracking almost 2.6m people in... by dang on Monday February 18, 2019 @12:50PM (#19192539)

Defending someone is no reason to break the site guidelines. If you keep doing that, we will ban you.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19187633 was particularly unacceptable.

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