"The FBI has repeatedly begged for more money to fund monitoring of the kiddie stuff on the net. Sure they have software that alerts them to the possibility of something going on but then a HUMAN has to look to verify what's going on. They don't have the funding for enough people to actually verify most of the software hits. Now if they can't track a small percentage of the population who look at that garbage how many people would it take to track each vehicle?" Sadly, this is a much larger problem than most realize. Back in the 90's I was quite computer savvy. Was active on IRC (Internet Relay Chat) on multiple help channels. Spent a good deal of my time going after kiddie p__n (can't use the word due to filters) spammers and sites and getting them shut down. After a while, just got tired of the whole mess and went 15+ years without using internet.
"What? You think you are so important they want to know where you are at? I can see it now "boss, farmer Brown went to the feed store at 12:11 PM today"! Worst case only if they suspect you are involved in terroristic activities or committed a serious crime would they even check the data to see if your car was in the vicinity of a certain location at a certain time. Basically if you are not on the no fly list or a known gang member they don't really care where you are at. No way, even with the latest technology do they have enough people to know where you are at or what you are doing. "
True. Very true. But here's the problem - It is computers that are programmed to do the tracking. The computers are set to look for certain things. When a computer finds a match (doesn't even need to be anywhere near complete), then a human has to get involved and decide whether it warrants continued investigation or not. So the real problem of the matter is, neither computers nor people are perfect. Computers are getting closer and closer to artificial intelligence, but that is also suspect due to the fallacies and the trial-N-error learning involved in programming and such. Now, when/if a computer happens to notice something, even if a human looks at it and discounts any further investigation, the computer retains that 'hit' in its memory. Just hope you don't happen to have any normal "life stinks" problems around one of these times. Bad things "do" happen.
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