Although such tracking has desirable properties like enabling personalization and website analytics, it also raises serious concerns about online user privacy, and can potentially enable illicit surveillance by adversaries who broadly monitor network traffic.
According to The Guardian, The NSA interprets section 215 to mean that it can broadly monitor Internet and phone communications.
In the past several decades, studies in organisms from bacteria to humans have revealed that cells broadly monitor protein QC during translation as well as after mature proteins have entered the proteome (Chen et al., 2011; Wolff et al., 2014).
And because sex crimes are broadly defined and closely monitored, the number of people listed in public sex offender registries is growing rapidly: 740,000 at latest count, more than the population of Boston or Seattle.
It can be broadly employed to monitor polyadenylation profiles of eukaryotic transcriptomes.
To broadly examine acquired cellular immunity, we monitored proliferation of donor leukocytes cocultured with autogeneic monocyte-derived dendritic cells pre-exposed to SGS.
"The New York Police Department monitored Muslim college students far more broadly than previously known, at schools far beyond the city limits, including the Ivy League colleges of Yale and the University of Pennsylvania..."...
Geographic origin and role or interest in newborn screening of survey participants was monitored to ensure that respondents were broadly representative.
On Saturday, when Mr. Pelley began asking how nuclear weapons would be monitored without an Energy Department, Mr. Perry, smiling broadly, cut in: "I'm glad you remembered it".
Broadly, it boils down to a choice between "bells-only", a monitored alarm and/or a speech dialler.
Details aside, the lesson is clear: there are consequences to monitoring data broadly, even when if its well-intentioned.
