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What basic security have we been teaching, saying like a broken record for decades? Update, patch, stay updated….but being conscious of security and updating can land spyware on your computer. Law enforcement and governments target people with fake updates that deploy undetectable shadow monitoring onto computers, cell phones and other mobile computing devices. The most recent Spy Files release highlights surveillance methods via Gamma International videos, maker of Finfisher spyware, teaching “infection solutions” for remote monitoring.

The primary objective in data retention is traffic analysis and mass surveillance. By analyzing the retained data governments can identify an individual’s location, their associates and members of a group, such as political opponents.

As if the records of our daily lives were not enough, most of this information is being recorded and stored in massive databases. While science has entered the era of big data, public policy researchers are also now realizing the power of massive data collections. Demographic data of nearly every part of our daily lives is recorded and stored for analysis. This data is used not only to surveil existing populaces, but to help predict trends and future developments, monitoring the future before it even happens. And while this type of research offers serious rewards—for example, helping to curb the spread of disease—it also brings with it serious new social concerns.

“Every decent-sized U.S. telecoms and Internet company has a team that does nothing but respond to requests for information,” Soghoian told Reuters in an interview.

Soghoian estimates that U.S. Internet and telecoms companies may receive about 300,000 such requests in connection with law enforcement each year — but public information is scarce.