On Thursday 21 August 2014 11:41:40 Robert J. Hansen wrote: > If it escalates to an intrusion, then yes, that's definitely > surveillance in my book. Compiling a collection of publicly available > information is not.
"Compiling a collection of publicly available information" is an almost perfect description of the term "surveillance". E.g. a surveillance camera does exactly that: it collects publicly available information. Your initial example, > That's like driving down the street and reporting on what colors > people's houses are and whether they have their garage door open. , is also a nice example of surveillance. The information is not by definition harmful to anyone, yet has the potential to be used against someone. "Mr. and Mrs. Smith always leave the garage door open in summer, except for one week a year, when they also close the bathroom window." is trivial, maybe even boring information to most people. To someone with bad intent this information might be a lot more interesting. Johannes _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
