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Italy Invests 150 Million Euros In Surveillance, With Emphasis On PS4 Chats (thestack.com)
An anonymous reader sends word that Italy will spend 150 million Euros on reforming information and security services. Part of this reform will be monitoring communication among users of the "chat" feature on PlayStation 4. The Stack reports: "Italian Minister of Justice Andrea Orlando has revealed that Italy is spending 150 million euros ($157mn) on new technology and staff to improve surveillance capabilities, and emphasized that the 'new instruments' (it's not clear whether this means new technology or new requisitions) will also target the Sony PlayStation network which fell under suspicion as a possible forum of organization for the Paris attacks (though no evidence was found to support this)."
That's how modern politics works, unfortunately.
Ignore the facts. Pick the first easy thing that shows we are doing something.
Ignore the real problem. Pick a random thing from the headlines and act on that.
Ignore the known solutions. Make sure you are never seen continuously working on the same thing until it's done, our attention span is too short for that.
Assorted stuff I do sometimes: Lemuria.org
Corruption or Stupidity. Pick one, because they're the only options that fit here.
You're assuming they aren't lying on the headline. Look again:
“The net offers numerous opportunities for communication. Antiterrorism investigations have highlighted the use of the [PlayStation]. Because of this every method of communication will be monitored with new instruments.”
PS4 is the excuse. NSA-style monitoring is the objective.