These "selectors", as they refer to them internally, are used to identify communications by presumed terrorists," said Grosser.
Scanning incoming emails for a signature which (allegedly) identified communications from a state-sponsored terrorist organization — that's not so different from scanning for child porn or malware, right?
With increasing societal dependence on the Internet and new application areas emerging, the need for securing communications and identifying communication partners is expected to increase.
Sophisticated identifying and communications equipment has cut confusion on the battlefield, one of the leading causes of friendly fire deaths, but the accuracy of weapons targeting has also improved, making any mistake more likely to be lethal.
It revealed that in 2015 GCHQ "identified 141,251 communications addresses or identifiers of interest from communications data acquired in bulk pursuant to section 94 directions which directly contributed to an intelligence report".
There is need for researchers, communications and advocacy practitioners to strategise together to identify the communications objectives and most appropriate approaches for particular research projects.
The compulsory retention of records of user interaction with the internet (web logs or similar) would be useful for attributing communications to individual devices, identifying use of communications sites and gathering intelligence or evidence on web browsing activity.
He assures us that they are only after the terrorists, but to identify terrorist communications they must record and store hundreds of millions of our calls, text messages and e-mail messages.
Herein, protocols to identify disgruntled communications are developed.
According to the Washington Post, the NSA identifies suspect communications using search terms designed to give it a 51% confidence rating that the target is foreign.
