I posted this on the Deadly Knowledge post. I think our new data acquisition weapon has to do with “audio surveillance, combined with impossibly fast and fine-grained sorting analysis, combined with voice-recognition and/or key-word datamining software.”

How many types of information can identify a particular human body? On the electromagnetic spectrum, we have heat, visible light and very small EM fields that surround our body. We have biometrics like DNA, retinals, dentals, fingerprints, bone-structure, and scent.

Finally, we have sound. I’m not sure if heart rhythms are identifiers or not — probably not — but we all know that vocal patterns are.

We know we have long range audio “telescopes”. We know the NSA has the ability to monitor millions of phone conversations at the same time and flag key words. We know government R&D recently became very interested in sound as a weapon.

RWE can correct me if I’m wrong, but data collected this way could be made actionable without divulging where it came from. Couldn’t we just say we got the data by monitoring cell phones? No one would be the wiser.