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this "nugget" jumped out of one of the several Snowden-sourced documents published by The Intercept this week with Dan Froomkin's chilling report on the human language technology division's speech processing and analysis capabilities and programs, due to its overweening arrogance and incoherent reasoning:

In order to determine intent, the analyst must know how things were said, in what tone and accent, the mood of the person, vocabulary usage, religious and political beliefs, nationality, type of device used, communication patterns, associations, and the location of the speakers to the nearest cell tower!

"determine intent," my left dead man's switch nugget!

this Schneier on Security post on cell phone metadata analysis is also interesting.