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i'm not as concerned as i might be. My rather meager understanding, which may be entirely baseless, is, that unlike the NSA which is obsessive about collecting
by marshmallow_12 6y ago
i'm not as concerned as i might be. My rather meager understanding, which may be entirely baseless, is, that unlike the NSA which is obsessive about collecting every single scrap of data (and many large chunks), the UK intelligence services are rather more discerning. Again, i would be happy for someone to correct me, that's just the general impression i get.
- chiefalchemist 6y agoIsn't there a fairly solid connection (read: partnership) between US and UK intelligence? Isn't such a chain only as strong as the weakest link? It's hard to imagine any of our European allies to be too far off the NSA's pace.
- Enginerrrd 6y agoI mean, the NSA famously uses the UK as a loophole to spy on American citizens. That suggests that they probably aren't particularly discerning to me.
- marshmallow_12 6y agoAll it suggests is that the UK is happy to curry favour with the US government and doesn't give a hoot about the perceived rights of American citizens. Harsh, but true. Their own citizens are an entirely different ballpark, as you might say.
- mhh__ 6y agoThe UK government is also even more lax than the US one with regard to its own citizens privacy.
- marshmallow_12 6y agoI don't know, i think the mentality here is that the government is spying for you, not at you. Is it different in the us? And is that because all revelations revolve around the fact that citizens are being spied on?
- lupire 6y agoThen why do people light british spy cameras on fire so often?
- tomatocracy 6y agoAs someone who lives on the UK, I've never once seen a vandalised CCTV camera or even a vandalised road speed camera (which I'm given to understand is more common).
- _puk 6y agoI've seen many of the early "Gatso[0]" cameras vandalised. My understanding is that they originally used film, which had to be retrieved, so trying to burn it down with a well placed tyre had a chance of avoiding a fine. [0] https://www.speedcamerasuk.com/gatso.htm https://www.speedcamerasuk.com/gatso.htm
- Spare_account 6y agoDo they? I'd like to read about that
- marshmallow_12 6y agocounter spies?
- pdkl95 6y agoI recommend reading this article, which includes leaked documents from GCHQ's Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group (JTRIG). https://theintercept.com/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/ https://theintercept.com/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/
- marshmallow_12 6y agoThat is truly nasty stuff. Stuff like this is part of the reason i try not invest too much of myself on the 'net and obfuscate as much as possible (i'm not really a marshmallow).
- mattowen_uk 6y agoAre you also marshmallows 0 to 11? If so, that your whole internet profile right there.
- marshmallow_12 6y agono. As far as i can tell, those are real.
- Camas 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempora https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempora