G+_George Kozi Posted June 21, 2013 Share Posted June 21, 2013 PRISM as a historical records collection tool. Denise Howell Jeff Jarvis Could an argument be made that all this data collected under Prism is somehow historical data? It is, despite all the objections, a record of what happens in society... If so, can it be valuable that way? Meaning not for the purpose of security investigations, but as historical records? It certainly is another way of looking at it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Denise Howell Posted June 21, 2013 Share Posted June 21, 2013 Who needs the Library of Congress when there's PRISM, right? As we discussed on the show today, litigants are already making evidentiary requests: http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-bank-robbery-nsa-20130612,0,5585582.story, http://touch.sun-sentinel.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-76374094/. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_George Kozi Posted June 21, 2013 Author Share Posted June 21, 2013 I'm not thinking about litigation, but about sociologists and historians... If one can find patterns in that data related to security, one could find all sorts of other patterns and trends too... Nobody else has a record of almost all the internet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jeff Jarvis Posted June 22, 2013 Share Posted June 22, 2013 I have trouble imaging that the stored data -- whatever it encompasses -- will be made public. Fascinating angle, Denise Howell, on evidentiary requests. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_George Kozi Posted June 22, 2013 Author Share Posted June 22, 2013 perhaps there could be a 30 year moratorium for making the data public. I know it is creepy, but is having a record of the internet a bad thing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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