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So same amount of information gathered but distributed among a larger group? Can't decide if this is good or bad.
by pawadu 10y ago
So same amount of information gathered but distributed among a larger group?
Can't decide if this is good or bad.
- choward 10y agoI honestly can't tell if this is supposed to be sarcasm or not.
- pawadu 10y agoits not :) from what I understand intelligence agencies in some other countries work in this fashion: one agency does the "data gathering" and provides other agencies with information upon request. in theory, this means fewer agencies snooping in your private life and that there is some sort of gate keeper that limits circulation of data based on need-to-know. so back to my not sarcastic questions: is this a good or bad thing?
- tekism 10y agoI don't know but this sounds scary to me, we just went from threats to national security to any crime. However—and this is especially troubling—“if analysts stumble across evidence that an American has committed any crime, they will send it to the Justice Department,” the Times wrote. So information that was collected without a warrant—or indeed any involvement by a court at all—for foreign intelligence purposes with little to no privacy protections, can be accessed raw and unfiltered by domestic law enforcement agencies to prosecute Americans with no involvement in threats to national security."
- bbddg 10y agoThis is a horrible thing for privacy but would information collected this way even be admissible in court? They could use it to inform investigations but I think they would have a very hard time trying to use this information to prosecute.
- pawadu 10y agookay, fair point. I assume they still cant use the information in court but that really doesn't make it much better.
- HalcyonicStorm 10y agoI'm sure this is where parallel construction will come into play.
- tdb7893 10y agoHopefully larger awareness leads to more oversight