SEXINT At The NSA
Instead of fulminating in a ranty thrown-together blog post on Wednesday as I did, tireless warrior for civil liberties Jennifer Granick took two extra days and wrote a serious, detailed, well-researched think piece, with citations, like a grownup:
NSA SEXINT is the Abuse You’ve All Been Waiting For
The important thing to keep in mind as media apologists attempt to minimize the story:
There are only six targets discussed in the paper. These six are worthwhile “exemplars,” according to the documents. But NSA profiles more than six people, we don’t know how many more, and we don’t know why.
Her conclusion:
In a mass surveillance ecosystem, the scale and scope on which this kind of activity can take place is unprecedented. Once it collects information about hundreds of millions of people in mass, “dossiers” of potentially embarrassing information — or blackmail quality secrets — dirt on anyone is just a few searches away. Intelligence operatives can secretly tar anyone, seemingly at will, since the NSA has the technological capacity, and no one has identified a law which would, if followed, intercede. These abilities, never mind the will to use them, are incompatible with individual freedom and democracy.
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There ought to be some sort of section of the invasion of privacy laws that covers this sort of thing.
If the government is “…of the people, by the people, and for the people…”, then it seems to me that if the government can access MY internet activities, I ought to be able to hack (as did Gary Mckinnon), THEIR logs and records, including their NASA list of “non-terrestrial officers” ( http://www.abov...3/pg1 ) and ( http://themarsr....html ), and see how closely they resemble Yoda, Worf, or Jar Jar Binks….
And what branch of the military uses this “black manta” patch on it’s uniforms?: http://www.powe...glen/
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