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Those are blacklists, i.e. known criminals. The US is asking for whitelists, i.e. everyone and without motives
by satellite2 4y ago
Those are blacklists, i.e. known criminals. The US is asking for whitelists, i.e. everyone and without motives
- jeremyjh 4y agoNo it isn’t. There is no bulk access, just responses to queries of biometric data for persons of interest.
- chaps 4y agoThat "just" is holding an enormous weight there, friend. Have you seen the query responses themselves to know whether they're not not getting back bulk info? And have you seen the giant private-public systems they'll want to funnel this info into? Just from my own research on surveillance, I got back a bunch of records in a FOIA lawsuit that included the the query results of a bunch of license plate scans. Large XML blobs. For whatever reason, they didn't redact a few thousand pages of those query results. A lot more info was in those query responses than you'd imagine. For example, SSNs of people whose license plates matched the first three digits of a "person of interest"'s car. Mind you, this was after them arguing for months, with affidavits, that they don't have audit logs. So, yeah.
- still_grokking 4y agoSure, sure, and the query looks like: SELECT * FROM Person JOIN Biometric_Datum ON Person.id = Biometric_Datum.person_id; See, no bulk access. Just a response to a query, only once an day, or so.