US Marshals have even taken Stingrays (or devices that achieve a similar effect) to the air, which involves still more indiscriminate data being sucked up.
"Everyone is sucked in," Ms. Player whispered.
But prior to that these had been lax enough for vast amounts of personal data to be sucked out without most users being aware — because the data sharing was being 'authorized' by their Facebook friends (who also likely weren't aware what they were agreeing to).
Facebook denies the Cambridge Analytica instance is a data breach — because, well, its systems were so laxly designed as to actively encourage vast amounts of data to be sucked out, via API, without the check and balance of those third parties having to gain individual level consent.
The EFF called the removal "alarming news for Android users", adding: "The fact that they cannot turn off app permissions is a Stygian hole in the Android security model, and a billion people's data is being sucked through.
Harvey Anderson of Mozilla says CISPA "creates a black hole" through which all kinds of data could be sucked in by the government.The bill does forbid the use by officials of personal information from medical records, tax returns and a list of other documents.
However, some gamers like to run two disks at the same, to speed up the rate at which data can be sucked out of them.
But what they are almost universally uncomfortable with is trading an unknown level of personal privacy, thanks to having so little control once their data has been sucked up into the cloud.
And that's before you even consider how, in inviting this bevy of connected device makers into your home, you're typically letting out a flow of what can be highly sensitive personal data to be sucked into the cloud for profit-seeking entities to pore over.
Later in the session he was also asked whether a narrowing of the definition of Section 702 to exclude using it to gather intelligence on "foreign affairs" — which clearly allows for a very wide range of data to be sucked up — would still enable the core intent to function.
