American Citizens Targeted by Pentagon Surveillance (ie How you became a targeted individual)

 

“The Pentagon is about war, whether overt or covert. By helping build the technological surveillance infrastructure of the NSA, firms like Google are complicit in what the military-industrial complex does best: kill for cash.

 

As the nature of mass surveillance suggests, its target is not merely terrorists, but by extension, ‘terrorism suspects’ and ‘potential terrorists,’ the upshot being that entire populations — especially political activists — must be targeted by US intelligence surveillance to identify active and future threats, and to be vigilant against hypothetical populist insurgencies both at home and abroad. Predictive analytics and behavioural profiles play a pivotal role here.

 

Mass surveillance and data-mining also now has a distinctive operational purpose in assisting with the lethal execution of special operations, selecting targets for the CIA’s drone strike kill lists via dubious algorithms, for instance, along with providing geospatial and other information for combatant commanders on land, air and sea, among many other functions. A single social media post on Twitter or Facebook is enough to trigger being placed on secret terrorism watch-lists solely due to a vaguely defined hunch or suspicion; and can potentially even land a suspect on a kill list.”

 

— EXCERPTS FROM “WHY GOOGLE MADE THE NSA – PART 2” BY NAFEEZ AHMED.

HTTPS://MEDIUM.COM/INSURGE-INTELLIGENCE/WHY-GOOGLE-MADE-THE-NSA-2A80584C9C1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DARPA and The Brain Initiative