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Die NSA und ihre Verbündeten sammeln unzählige Informationen über das Internet. In der Datenbank Treasuremap tragen sie alles ein, was sie wissen - zum Spionieren und Angreifen. Es ist die Generalstabskarte für den Cyberwar.

In North America, the Canadians have long had to play country mouse to the flashier city mouse of the U.S. It's the latter that gets all the attention, while the former sits quietly in a corner. But recent stories have shown just how big a player the Canadians are becoming---at least in the surveillance realm.

Canada’s electronic spy agency reportedly tracks and analyzes up to 15 million file downloads from all around the world per day.

Learn more:

- http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=Cyberespionage...

The National Security Agency has a "Google-like" search engine designed to share 850 billion records about emails, phone calls, internet chats, and more...

Learn more:

- http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=NSA

When the web became commonplace, the decision-makers ignored it, considering it irrelevant. As a result, freedom flourished online. People weren't just consuming content; they were creating it.

But, eventually, politicians and leaders realised how important the internet is. And they realised how useful the internet can be for other purposes — especially for surveillance of citizens. The two chief inventions of our generation — the internet and the mobile phone — changed the world. However, they both turned out to be perfect tools for the surveillance state. And in such a state, everybody is assumed guilty.

US intelligence agencies have a full legal right to monitor foreigners — and most of us are foreigners to the Americans. So when we use US-based services, we are under surveillance — and most of the services we use are US-based.

Advancements in computing power and data storage have made wholesale surveillance possible. But they've also made leaking possible, which will keep organisations worrying about getting caught over any wrongdoing. The future of the web is hanging in the balance between parties that want to keep us under surveillance and parties that want to reveal the nature of such surveillance. Both parties have the data revolution on their side.

While governments are watching over us, they know we're watching over them.