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This is mostly security theater, and generally not worth the lift when you consider the steps needed to unlock the value of that data in the context of investig
by farts_mckensy 1y ago
This is mostly security theater, and generally not worth the lift when you consider the steps needed to unlock the value of that data in the context of investigations.
- bigyabai 1y agoCitation?
- farts_mckensy 1y ago-The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board’s 2014 review of the NSA “Section 215” phone-record program found no instance in which the dragnet produced a counter-terror lead that couldn’t have been obtained with targeted subpoenas. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_and_Civil_Liberties_Oversight_Board_report_on_mass_surveillance https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_and_Civil_Liberties_... -After Boston, Paris, Manchester, and other attacks, post-mortems showed the perpetrators were already in government databases. Analysts simply didn’t connect the dots amid the flood of benign hits. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/01/26/whole-haystack https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/01/26/whole-haystack -Independent tallies suggest dozens of civilians killed for every intended high-value target in Yemen and Pakistan, largely because metadata mis-identifies phones that change pockets. https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/36962/pdf https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/36962/pdf