Jeff has a good idea that finds frequent beneficial problem solving application applied to vast amounts of data points. Rather than applying complex algorithms to all trillions of data points with geo-spatial attributes group them into relationship boxes that somehow relate to the probability that within certain boxes there is more probability of finding a solution. Especially if computing power is constrained or there is a time constraint in using any available computing power. Jeff likes real time identification of the problem to do something about it.
Excellent idea!
The NSA searching for bad guys in Peoria or a company doing business consumer intelligence is a relatively unimportant geo-spatial box to look at with deep inspection algorithmic programs. If there is a problem to be found in Peoria it will likely be connected to Chicago. Good thinking by either the NSA or Free Private Enterprise.
These are the cities that AT&T could offer its Gigapower services since it depends on optical fiber.
This is where AT&T says it is at now, planned or being explored.
Order the probability of pay off by establishing broad categorical geo-spatial boxes then apply deep algorithm processing based on related entities.
Is that what scumbag AT&T is doing in my prior blog entry to apply there service model?
Of course they are. Simple business decision to utilize resources efficiently and target the most beneficial target market area. If they sell intelligence data to the NSA that would of course influence choice of cities to offer the plan.
"Some Ars readers think AT&T has gone too far. "Google watches you use Google services, AT&T watches everything and only matches Google's price. Scumbag AT&T," Ars forum member arkiel wrote."
The city choice may have been to undercut Google and eliminate competition in Austin and Kansas City but future choice might depend more on third party customers of AT&T big data rather than competitors.
AT&T business model: "Pay for your own enslavement" Sounds like my problem solution model: "Get the cat to skin itself by choosing to jump out of its own skin" Is that a variation of the model of giving enough rope?
Another commenter said:
"However, I swear this isn't the first time an ISP has offered a discount in exchange for less privacy. Maybe it was ATT in another part of the USA? I thought it *was* Google offering this, but I can't find anything about it. IIRC it was a $10 per month discount."
Offering a discount in exchange for less privacy is a common business model. Previously I blogged about Progressive Insurance doing this with a dongle fitted to the car's computer system and reporting information related to vehicle operation including location.
Another reader commented:
Also, there is no way users' browsing behavior is worth $29 per month to at&t, this is just simple price discrimination.
"1) I also cannot believe that the user's browsing data is worth $29 per month. Are there no diminishing returns for marketers? Can a single user browsing the web really be worth hundreds of dollars per month for everyone involved in the advertising chain? Where the hell does the actual money come from?"
Good question. Where might that money come from. To whom would it be worth that much as opposed to obtaining it themselves. Worth in terms of dollars as well as avoiding law or other constraints or connections that would otherwise add "costs" to their operations.
Ars Technica editors pick of comments;
"$348 a year "discount" to give up my privacy?
Sounds alot like 30 pieces of silver."
Privacy is for sale. We have sold it for security. We can sell it for money. Eventually we will have neither nor any privacy. Slaves are slaves because they work for nothing. We skin ourselves through what we sell.
Elegant method to induce our own end state by virtue of our own choice.
Cui Bono?
Maybe this comment reveals what is behind the push to dismantle the Post Office:
"The Post Office needs to offer email, search, broadband, ePhone and anything else having to do with digital communication. This service would be protected by the fourth amendment and it would require a search warrant to look at your emails. The idea that the phone company “owns” your telephone conversations is free market anarchy economics carried to the ultimate extreme, like the water company in Bolivia that claimed to own the rain. Profit is not holy."
The Post Office could also provide banking services.
A double target on the Post Office Back.
We do not value our privacy enough therefore we sell it cheap or give it away or in the worst case pay to have it taken away.
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