The NSA isn’t the only group looking into your private life. According to a new article in the Financial Times, your credit score, purchase history, and other personal details are being closely surveyed and then sold to retailers by the burgeoning data surveillance industry.
Over the past few years data surveillance has turned into a multi-billion dollar industry. It may have been plastics in the 60s, but today it’s all about selling consumer dossiers.
Many “1984” book sales are having online book sellers see a major increase in the classic novel’s overall popularity, as USA Today reported this Wednesday, June 12, that following the recent NSA surveillance and spying controversy, George Orwell’s dystopian piece is experiencing a renewed public interest.
By Lydia Warren
Edward Snowden, the former CIA analyst behind the NSA leaks, has claimed that the U.S. government has been hacking Hong Kong and Chinese networks for at least four years.
In his first interview since he revealed himself on Sunday, the 29-year-old whistleblower told the South China Morning Post that the NSA has hacked the country’s universities, businesses and politicians.
He claimed the agency had hundreds of targets – including the Chinese University of Hong Kong – from as far back as 2009, but that these were just a fraction of the 61,000 NSA hacking operations carried out globally.
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