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The #NSA Admits It Analyzes More People’s #Data Than Previously Revealed - Philip Bump - The Atlantic Wire
▻http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2013/07/nsa-admits-it-analyzes-more-peoples-data-previously-revealed/67287

Analysts look “two or three hops” from terror suspects when evaluating terror activity, Inglis revealed. Previously, the limit of how surveillance was extended had been described as two hops.

(...) #surveillance #métadonnées qui nous rassemblent tous (à moins de cinq pas les uns des autres) #entre_soi !

For a sense of scale, researchers at the University of Milan found in 2011 that everyone on the Internet was, on average, 4.74 steps away from anyone else. The NSA explores relationships up to three of those steps.

Separating You and Me ? 4.74 Degrees
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/22/technology/between-you-and-me-4-74-degrees.html
November 21, 2011

The world is even smaller than you thought.