20.06.2014 - 09:51 [ Techdirt ]

How The NSA Gamified Spying On Everyone With ‚Skilz‘ Points For NSA Analysts

With a new batch of Snowden documents being revealed by Der Spiegel, mostly concerning the NSA‘s operations in Germany, Andrea Peterson over at The Switch, noticed one only moderately terrifying tidbit in one of the documents: the NSA appears to have taken a lesson from the whole „gamification“ movement and used it to help the NSA better spy on people.