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.