That’s not how signal intelligence gathering works. Ever heard of AI?
It’s been an open secret in the Intelligence community that governments on both sides employ electronic screening systems going all the way back to the 60s. The AI’s can’t interpret the data but they can flag the data for inspection by a human. Then it’s all down to following the breadcrumbs.
My company recently employed Microsoft CoPilot which is case you haven’t been reading the news recently, it is the Microsoft Branded version of ChatGPT. I’ve been paying for ChatGPT on my personal account but having that AI unleashed inside my own company’s “Private” servers is unnerving in what I was able to dig up in the last couple of weeks.
The data that is being gathered by Bambu is without question being warehoused within the PRC’s own large language model AIs without Bambu’s consent.
It’s never one piece of information that compromises a system, it is the cumulative affect of gathering all the breadcrumbs to come up with a comprehensive profile of an individuals habits, lifestyles and compromising personal information. Since the Patriot act was passed I’ve always maintained that I am not afraid of the NSA having my phone bill, they have to follow the law. But what’s to stop Google or Amazon from using my data and selling it to people with nefarious purpose. Now add that scenario to the resources and hostile agenda of the PRC and even George Orwell would by nervous.