One of the key notes was William Binney.

Videos can be found here:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xs8zd7_william-binney-hope-9-keynote-part1_tech

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xs8zl4_william-binney-hope-9-keynote-part2_tech

Here is an article:

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/truthdigger_of_the_week_william_binney_20120714/

It is a suggested watch if you have questions about the how tracking and profiling systems could be implemented across the world and in the US.  It describes a reverse social network that assigns actions to people and uses these actions to predict the future of other actions.

John and Sue do this.   This means that Al is going to do this.  They have this in a town and this will cause X.  Al has done this X amount of times along with doing it here.  This means that Al is going to bla.

Binney also spoke of pursuing information and using it to find out information that is unrelated.  The formula or idea that he spoke of would be the equivalent of measuring two closed systems one within the other.  The closed system on the outside if measured fully would tell you everything about the other closed system inside.

It was interesting.  Binney also spoke of the US governments posture on monitoring its citizens and that he thought it was wrong.  He spoke of working at the NSA and moving away from the legacy system that was setup and making something new only to have it ripped away from him because the NSA needed the problem he solved to keep making money.

He also spoke about be harassed by the FBI, etc.

Another video:  http://www.infowars.com/whistleblower-binney-says-the-nsa-has-dossiers-on-nearly-every-us-citizen/

He states that in 2001 active collection of transaction information was high and he assumes that it is even higher now.

He was also concerned with the Whitehouse initiative on ‘big data’ and that government agencies are pooling their money to finish a system that is already in place.