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Wyden had pressed Haines, previously the number two at the Central Intelligence Agency, to release the panel's report during a March 8 hearing. Haines replied at the time that she believed it “absolutely” should be read by the public. On Friday, the report was declassified and released by the ODNI, which has been embroiled in a legal fight with the digital rights nonprofit the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) over a host of related documents. “This report makes it clear that the government continues to think it can buy its way out of constitutional protections using taxpayers’ own money," says Chris Baumohl, a law fellow at EPIC. “Congress must tackle the government’s data broker pipeline this year, before it considers any reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act,” he said (referring to the ongoing political fight over the so-called “crown jewel” of US surveillance). The ODNI's own panel of advisers makes clear that the government’s static interpretations of what constitutes “publicly available information” poses a significant threat to the public. The advisers decry existing policies that automatically conflate being able to buy information with it being considered “public.” The information being commercially sold about Americans today is “more revealing, available on more people (in bulk), less possible to avoid, and less well understood” than that which is traditionally thought of as being “publicly available.” Perhaps most controversially, the report states that the government believes it can “persistently” track the phones of “millions of Americans” without a warrant, so long as it pays for the information. Were the government to simply demand access to a device's location instead, it would be considered a Fourth Amendment “search” and would require a judge's sign-off. But because companies are willing to sell the information—not only to the US government but to other companies as well—the government considers it “publicly available” and therefore asserts that it “can purchase it.” It is no secret, the report adds, that it is often trivial “to deanonymize and identify individuals” from data that was packaged as ethically fine for commercial use because it had been “anonymized” first. Such data may be useful, it says, to “identify every person who attended a protest or rally based on their smartphone location or ad-tracking records.” Such civil liberties concerns are prime examples of how “large quantities of nominally ‘public’ information can result in sensitive aggregations.” What's more, information collected for one purpose “may be reused for other purposes,” which may “raise risks beyond those originally calculated,” an effect called “mission creep.”
on the off chance this breaks containment this is not me going "rah rah rah" and I have no actual proof/citation to say ODNI is an intentional referent (the IARPA thing is fairly obvious); just that the us at least does seem to have a pattern of associating him with information gathering/intelligence networks (there's more just can't be arsed to link atm)
which is actually my point; good to know where he's being invoked no matter what you believe, most likely
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that's not even all of the NASA ones, but one hell of a call sign, Mr. O'Hagan
first of all no. i’m filing this for later. i just worked 13 hours and i ain’t processing all that. but—you do know about the CRISPR DIY biohacking outfit?
what's the shape that you are/intend to become? i fear it's likely the opposite of what you want but do the shirts from Japanese retailers fit you? They always feel like they're cut slightly differently to western brands
on account of fulminant jimjams i i’d rather not get into it but theoretically* (*lies and gaslighting) enough improvement is on the table that made-to-measure is on indefinite hiatus. idk though. you can get shirts made for the price of a moderately fancy meal for two in nyc and maybe the best way to goose an oblivious and indifferent destiny into coughing up some fucking action is drop a grand on shirts 💀 (also though i’m right out of patience and can and will fix the fixable upper torso thru violence as soon as i can align the time and energy to commission it, so like, maybe still postpone on that for a year or two)
and, not unless they have way more room for giant fucking pelvic bones in japan. the problem i have is shirts literally do not come close to closing on the last couple of buttons at the bottom. it’s only maybe half to do with fat distribution, there’s a major musculoskeletal infrastructure component. it’s just an absolute dealbreaker that’s nothing to do with the more common questions of chest wrangling or whether the shoulders and sleeves can be made to work etc—japan might be promising on those types of axes but it literally won’t help me. thanks for the thought though.
Wyden had pressed Haines, previously the number two at the Central Intelligence Agency, to release the panel's report during a March 8 hearing. Haines replied at the time that she believed it “absolutely” should be read by the public. On Friday, the report was declassified and released by the ODNI, which has been embroiled in a legal fight with the digital rights nonprofit the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) over a host of related documents. “This report makes it clear that the government continues to think it can buy its way out of constitutional protections using taxpayers’ own money," says Chris Baumohl, a law fellow at EPIC. “Congress must tackle the government’s data broker pipeline this year, before it considers any reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act,” he said (referring to the ongoing political fight over the so-called “crown jewel” of US surveillance). The ODNI's own panel of advisers makes clear that the government’s static interpretations of what constitutes “publicly available information” poses a significant threat to the public. The advisers decry existing policies that automatically conflate being able to buy information with it being considered “public.” The information being commercially sold about Americans today is “more revealing, available on more people (in bulk), less possible to avoid, and less well understood” than that which is traditionally thought of as being “publicly available.” Perhaps most controversially, the report states that the government believes it can “persistently” track the phones of “millions of Americans” without a warrant, so long as it pays for the information. Were the government to simply demand access to a device's location instead, it would be considered a Fourth Amendment “search” and would require a judge's sign-off. But because companies are willing to sell the information—not only to the US government but to other companies as well—the government considers it “publicly available” and therefore asserts that it “can purchase it.” It is no secret, the report adds, that it is often trivial “to deanonymize and identify individuals” from data that was packaged as ethically fine for commercial use because it had been “anonymized” first. Such data may be useful, it says, to “identify every person who attended a protest or rally based on their smartphone location or ad-tracking records.” Such civil liberties concerns are prime examples of how “large quantities of nominally ‘public’ information can result in sensitive aggregations.” What's more, information collected for one purpose “may be reused for other purposes,” which may “raise risks beyond those originally calculated,” an effect called “mission creep.”
on the off chance this breaks containment this is not me going "rah rah rah" and I have no actual proof/citation to say ODNI is an intentional referent (the IARPA thing is fairly obvious); just that the us at least does seem to have a pattern of associating him with information gathering/intelligence networks (there's more just can't be arsed to link atm)
which is actually my point; good to know where he's being invoked no matter what you believe, most likely
roger rabbit syncretism: the gods blend softly casual into the other in currents and webs based precisely upon how funny it is at the time
occurred to me I could get two disparate yet somehow similar cosigners
China's attempt to form a unified national identity but inevitably oppressing minorities vs India's attempt to form a unified national identity but inevitably oppressing minorities vs America's attempt to form a unified national identity but inevitably oppressing minorities vs France's attempt to form a unified national identity but inevitably oppressing minorities vs Israel's attempt to form a unified national identity but inevitably oppressing minorities vs...
nationalism! it's a hoot.
*sniffing the air* the goons are about...
You point your flashlight at me and I screech “what needs done boss?” Before scampering off into the woods
When I say editing software is getting dumber, this is what I mean.
In what world is "What dinnered?" more legible than "What happened to dinner?" I just... what?!
I smoke weed and also I jack off and also I died and also I was reborn. Like this post if you’re not afraid to reblog it.