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Ars TechnicaInstead of obtaining a warrant, the NSA would like to keep buying your data
The agency opposes an amendment that prevents it from using data brokers.
We Can Be Gyros@arstechnica so that begs the question, who does the NSA really work for? What is their mission? their goal is to surveil and investigate every American and invade their privacy, seems fascist.
Ostrich@WecanbeGyros @arstechnica And what of the foreign intelligence agencies who have no such restrictions on how they obtain data on Americans?
@WecanbeGyros @arstechnica Like how are we framing this as "Why is NSA buying surreptitious photos of my butthole?!" and not "Why are surreptitious photos of my butthole for sale?!"
@ostrich @arstechnica exactly! I was just thinking, it should say, "the old pedos at the NSA need to look at your teenage sons' d!k pics all day!" In the DEFENSE of our SAFETY!!
@WecanbeGyros @arstechnica I mean the worst is that arguably it's actually pretty core to the NSA's counterintelligence mission to know that information on American citizens is being sold potentially to nation state intelligence apparatus.
Restricting the government's ability to participate in a private corporate panopticon doesn't make it any less of a panopticon
@ostrich @arstechnica both threats are real and I love your point.
@WecanbeGyros @arstechnica Well the other Five Eyes can buy data on Americans no problem and share that data/conclusions with the NSA, so IMHO the root of the threat is that we have no privacy regime in the private sphere.
Jack@WecanbeGyros @arstechnica
In my day the agency was specifically prohibited from collecting any intel from American citizens. After 9/11, Bush tore down most of the barriers and let the IC do what they wanted.
In my day the agency was specifically prohibited from collecting any intel from American citizens. After 9/11, Bush tore down most of the barriers and let the IC do what they wanted.
@Jeber @arstechnica I do not trust the ones collecting my data to have my best interests in mind. No one is saving the regular Americans. We have also lost respect for their work as their devotion to justice is a farce.
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š¹@arstechnica would be nice if everyone was prevented from using data brokers. i don't feel any better about corporations having my data than the state...
Orca š» | š | šŖ | š“š³ļøāā§ļø@arstechnica 'course they will. They're one of the largest benefactor here.š
excited for the mastodon rise@arstechnica to be fair, we should simply make this kind of data brokerage totally illegal
Mark@arstechnica
Is this what was keeping #TheBadPlace alive for all those years?
Pretty sure we already knew about Fakebook.
Is this what was keeping #TheBadPlace alive for all those years?
Pretty sure we already knew about Fakebook.
Dragon-sided D@arstechnica
Dear NSA,
Go ahead. Buy all the data on me you can. Good luck with that.
Love,
An Invisible Person
@arstechnica
Intel purchased from 3rd parties can never be as dependable as that you collect yourself. But if they're still barred from directly collecting intel on citizens I can see where buying it makes sense. The entire IC, along with ICE, needs to be reigned in and better controlled.
Intel purchased from 3rd parties can never be as dependable as that you collect yourself. But if they're still barred from directly collecting intel on citizens I can see where buying it makes sense. The entire IC, along with ICE, needs to be reigned in and better controlled.
Aviva Gary@arstechnica I mean yeah... that would get in the way of things š