No, but the NSA might care about your movements, who you know, who you deal with, and so on.
Remember that video that was posted of a Lawyer given a talk to law students about never speaking to policemen? Remember how innocent things can be completely twisted and used against you?
Yeah, I'd worry about the NSA snooping in my calendar.
This cannot be understated, especially when it's not just the NSA snooping -- it's the entirety of the US Government. The DEA and the IRS revelations about using NSA-sourced information are just the tip of the iceberg, and it should be clear and obvious that there are use-cases for this data in a variety of other areas.
Unless the government puts explicit restrictions (not secret restrictions!) on how their resources (not just stored data!) can be used and actively punishes those using it improperly, then it should be assumed that all the resources at the NSA's disposal will be used for the convenience of the rest of the government.
Well, we dont. And if they are, that's data connections. Maybe the dentist is connected to some one scary, a client. Now "you" are connected to some one scary. That's a terror network...
I'm personally more frightened about someone like the IRS being handed data from the NSA, than the NSA thinking I'm a terrorist, and I pay my taxes and everything. I'm just frightened about being nailed for any tiny mistakes that I have made in the past, that this data capture could glean, if that makes sense?
FWIW, I'm not even from or in the US of A, but I'm worried about my government doing something exactly like that considering how much it's cooperated with the NSA directly in the past and present.
The problem is that connections like these occur purely by chance. When you multiply the events together you get a low probability ... but there are hundreds of millions of Americans. There will be a lot of false positives.
ah, but it's plausible cperciva is connected to a suspected terrorist and might be using the magazine stand in the dentists waiting room for dead drops..
the sad truth of the matter is it's a cultural thing, not a technology thing.
sharing your calendar can be twisted against you.
not sharing your calendar can also be twisted against you ("you don't seem to be sharing your calendar like most of your fellow citizens, what are you hiding?")
Yeah, indeed. I remember some thing posted here a while ago about about a prospective employer assuming something is wrong with a candidate with out a facebook profile for the prospective employer to snoop over prior to hiring.
Perhaps we should exercise our little grey cells more. Granted for a busy sales man or something that's impractical, but Im sure we could generally commit more exclusively to memory..
I posted this before, but to repeat... I think the legacy here is that we move more and more as a matter of habit or routine to a more secure way of living. No, we cant ever fully insulate ourselves from the NSA, but I think more and more of us will commit less to the internet, choose HTTPS via automatic extensions, use more secure software as a default, self censor, and so on.
Remember that video that was posted of a Lawyer given a talk to law students about never speaking to policemen? Remember how innocent things can be completely twisted and used against you?
Yeah, I'd worry about the NSA snooping in my calendar.