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Re:The Treasury Is Expanding the Patriot Act to Attack Bitco... by jofla_net on Friday September 12, 2025 @05:47PM (#45227153)
Sadly, Percisely. Digital Forensics (the evidence of nothing by the way, a great book), is approaching little more than gluing together datasets from various completely fungible entities. I too could be a master investigator if I could simply compel various busnisses to gift me the tables needed!
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Re:The Treasury Is Expanding the Patriot Act to Attack Bitco... by Nevermark on Friday September 12, 2025 @11:21PM (#45229030)
Pretty soon they will be able to run all our information through a language model.

Models could identify "suspicious" behavior and generate plausible theories to fit the desired witch hunt, based on what they read. Scary.

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Re:The Treasury Is Expanding the Patriot Act to Attack Bitco... by conductr on Friday September 12, 2025 @11:26PM (#45229054)
The eventuality is of course a dystopian thought police situation, where simply thinking or even Googling something suggesting you were even contemplating something illegal will be grounds to charge you with the crime.
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Re:The Treasury Is Expanding the Patriot Act to Attack Bitco... by tastyfreeze on Saturday September 13, 2025 @03:20PM (#45234598)
That is essentially what has been done since the FBI Carnivore software circa 1997. The software gets more complicated but the goal is the same. I assume that the drive for better AI models is in part driven by intelligence agency needs to categorize mountains of data to build profiles of individuals.
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