Incentivizing citizens spying through ‘soft control’ and cell phones

Thursday, March 22, 2012
By Paul Martin

Madison Ruppert, Contributing Writer
Activist Post
Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Like me, chances are you have probably never heard of the concept of “crowd soft control,” or just “soft control,” for that matter.

“Soft control” is a way to leverage the millions of cell phones owned by Americans across the United States of America in order to assist in massive data gathering – and potentially surveillance – operation; and with 88% of Americans now owning a cell phone, this shouldn’t be all too difficult.

This goes far beyond the data collection of Silicon Valley giants and even the surveillance capabilities already available via smartphone applications.

Researchers now see an infinite amount of possibilities when it comes to how they can leverage the audio recording capabilities and photography capabilities, not to mention global position systems (GPS) on most modern mobile devices.

Some of the more tame examples could be services that collect data from users in order to monitor noise pollution or air quality, as well as applications which could create maps from the various pictures taken on users’ devices.

However, this same technique could also be used to incentivize citizen spying in order to conduct massive surveillance operations which could never be conducted without the technique known as “crowd sourcing.”

Yet it would not be feasible to pay 88% of Americans to conduct various activities; instead, it is much easier to utilize “soft control” to encourage people to do things that they might otherwise never do.

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