Thread:JoshuaFlynn/@comment-5122856-20140208172847/@comment-24459455-20140208190930

It's designed specifically for Big Brother.

The police and telecoms already comprise part of the information gathering units. US Police are incorporated under the command of the DHS which was formed as part of the various so-called 'anti-terrorism' laws such as the Patriotic Act, the NDAA, FISA and similar, and the telecoms are subpoenaed under secret courts (the UK has it's own variation of the secret courts).

The various CEOs and employees of various telecom based technology however have either direct ties to either the database state or intel and there's a lot of cross-over between organisations. The ties are a bit complicated to express simply and concisely in a single post, but I'll try to express it and you can sort it out

For example, NARUS is a subsidy of Boeing. Boeing of which you will know as a private contractor, AKA corporation, who conventionally develop aerospace technology for the aforementioned USAF, such as drones which are also used in surveillance.

The USAF hired Ntrepid (or Intrepid, depending on your preferences) another private contractor/corporation who processes information to build [http://www.informationweek.com/security/risk-management/air-force-seeks-fake-online-social-media-identities/d/d-id/1096228? persona management software], AKA artificial sock accounts that are designed to emulate different people and post on things like facebook, twitter, google+ etc.

Getting back on point, NARUS developed NARUS-STA 6400 which was designed to inspect packets (STA stands for Semantic Traffic Analyzer) that arrived in rooms like room 641A (rooms purpose built in telecom buildings to house such technology).

However, to quote from the NARUS wikipedia page:

"In 1997, Ori Cohen, Vice President of Business and Technology Development for  VDONet, founded Narus with Stas Khirman in Israel. [1]  Presently, they are employed with  Deutsche Telekom AG and are not members of Narus'  Executive Team. [2] [3] "

Which means both Ori Cohen and Stas Khirman are the department heads of one of the biggest telecom companies in Germany. Deutsche Telekom AG shares with Orange, one of the largest mobile network providers (see the CELLDAR comment and triangulation comment above), as is T-mobile (T-mobile is owned entirely by Deutsche Telekom AG). The German government has a partial stake in Deutsch Telekom AG. The German government forms part of the expanded '14 eyes agreement' (as opposed to the closely knit 'five eyes' agreement between the anglo countries of UK/US/CAN/AUS/NZ).

Ori Cohen developed NARUS in israel, israel who are, as noted, part of the information gathering surveillance net.

This is just a minor tip of the iceberg. It's difficult to convey how many corporations and governments are involved. Edward Snowden dealt a huge blow but he wasn't one of the higher ranking guys.

What purpose does it serve if it's been demonstrated it doesn't prevent terrorism? Why so big? Why so much locational and personal data? Seems like a tool of control, not protection.