They wanna know who your friends are, your personality traits, all possible activities and thoughts you may have and they put it into a profile database. They are essentially predicting your future behavior based on your past and current activities, and thoughts. They then flag targets and act upon the information. We saw the organized federal crackdown during the Occupy movement, where leaders were tracked and arrested the night before the protests, or during or after. It's about total control now and in the future. If you ever say, read or think something they don't like they can easily ruin your life. All those resumes you send out over the internet? Well, your anti-surveillance and you are politically minded and have friends that are anti-fracking, anti-wallstreet, or pro-occupy what have you... Well, those resumes can easily be deleted, sabotaged, or when the companies you apply to do background checks on you, what do you think comes up or can come up if the NSA wants it to? It's complete control of the future political and social make up of this country now and forever.
Binney says that ThinThread was built to track electronic activities — phone calls, emails, banking and travel records, social media , etc. — and map them to collect "all the attributes that any individual has" in every type of activity and build a real-time profile based on that data.
"So that now I can pull your entire life together from all those domains and map it out and show your entire life over time," Binney told documentarian Laura Poitras in "The Program" (emphasis ours). Binney added that the purpose of the program is "to be able to monitor what people are doing" and who they are doing it with.
Greenwald and Ackerman, citing the NSA documents, describe how mining metadata from U.S. phone calls and especially Internet communications, which continues to this day, allows the NSA to performs "contact chaining" by which the agency can analyze "networks with two degrees of separation (two hops) from [a] target."
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