The US government has been clandestinely gathering a “large amount” of “sensitive and intimate information” on American citizens, according to a report that has just been declassified. The report, which was handed to Avril Haines, the director of national intelligence, by her own senior advisers, offers a disconcerting glimpse into the government’s data hoarding activities.
What They’re Saying: “This report reveals what we feared most. Intelligence agencies are flouting the law and buying information about Americans that Congress and the Supreme Court have made clear the government should not have,” Sean Vitka, a policy attorney at Demand Progress, told Wired.
Between the Lines: The government has been exploiting legal loopholes and leveraging archaic laws to create a ballooning surveillance behemoth. By purchasing data from commercial brokers, the government claims it can “persistently” track the phones of “millions of Americans” without a warrant. This side steps Fourth Amendment protections, which would normally require a warrant for such surveillance.
The Mission Creep: Even more unnerving is the revelation that data initially gathered for harmless reasons could be redirected for more nefarious objectives. more here
Well not from B of A. They furnish that info for free.
I’ve heard that there’s a massive gubment data center in Utah that has the capacity to store 100 years of detailed data for each person in the world.
Lets hope they’re using spin drives with Hitlery maintaining all of it with her hammer and cloth.
fullmetal256
I believe you are describing the NSA. Who just stored this thread for posterity.
Brad – LOL. It’s all gubment, no matter how many holes you put into it
‘Your tax dollars at work!’
give you a kinda warm, fuzzy feeling … don’t it?
Nothing like using the sweat of our labor against us.
Throw the 4th Amendment in the trash.
Big Government needs no written limitations on citizen’s rights.
After all a living Constitution is one that evolves, changes over time, and adapts to new circumstances, without being formally amended by the Government.
Our written Constitution, a relic from the distant past, will remain under glass Hidden from public view in the National Archives.
Welcome to the USSR, we have become slaves to the all powerful state.
No one truly knows how deep the rabbit hole goes or where will it end.
“I love my country and our system of government, but I fear their perversion and betrayal.”
~~~ Allen C. Guelzo is the 2017–18 James Madison Program Garwood Visiting Professor and Visiting Fellow at Princeton University. https://www.firstthings.com/article/2018/06/nuanced-patriotism
“Brad – LOL. It’s all gubment, no matter how many holes you put into it”
Why yes it is. You might say it’s a target rich environment. LOL
“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them –That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it.”
Now you know how people living in Germany in the 1930s felt.
Wow! Don’t remember reading THAT in the Constitution!
Looks like God is pulling out all the stops.
“… anyone who aims at tyranny is thought by all mankind to be worthy of death …”
mortem tyrannis
izlamo delenda est …
“…data initially gathered for harmless reasons could be redirected for more nefarious objectives.”
Harmless reasons??? If they want my personal information for ANY reason, get my permission, or get a warrant. The problem is that no one can be held responsible when they can hide in these massive deep state bureaucracies. And those at the top are politically protected.