The National Security Agency is secretly providing data to nearly two dozen U.S. government agencies with a “Google-like” search engine built to share more than 850 billion records about phone calls, emails, cellphone locations, and internet chats, according to classified documents obtained by The Intercept.
The documents provide the first definitive evidence that the NSA has for years made massive amounts of surveillance data directly accessible to domestic law enforcement agencies. Planning documents for ICREACH, as the search engine is called, cite the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Drug Enforcement Administration as key participants.
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(Score: 5, Funny) by BradTheGeek on Friday August 29 2014, @11:27AM
Shouldn't it be called ENCROACH?
(Score: 5, Funny) by BradTheGeek on Friday August 29 2014, @11:30AM
Erasing National Constitutional Regulations Over America's Corpselike Husk
(Score: 1) by Horse With Stripes on Friday August 29 2014, @11:34AM
Or at least WEREACH ... or OVERREACH?
(Score: 5, Interesting) by physicsmajor on Friday August 29 2014, @11:50AM
These are not encroachments. Nor are they overreaches. Those words imply the stretching of somewhat elastic boundaries, which is not the case despite what talking heads like to think (if they say it enough, it might be true!). What is going on here are abject, blatant, 100% obvious, complete and utter violations of the spirit and the letter of the US Constitution.
An appropriate acronym here is VIOLATION. If you believe, as I do, that these acts in fact represent acts of war declared by the US Government on the People then TREASON would be apropos.
This entire apparatus must be destroyed, not just dismantled, along with any and all information gathered or provided to all other agencies on US citizens without due process (e.g., express warrant and NOT by blanket authorization by secret court/FISA) at any point in time. End of story.
Demand nothing less. Do not let them change the narrative.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Geezer on Friday August 29 2014, @12:03PM
+5 Damn Right!
(Score: 2) by mtrycz on Friday August 29 2014, @02:35PM
So... what about the remaining 95% of the world population?
In capitalist America, ads view YOU!
(Score: 3, Informative) by HiThere on Friday August 29 2014, @06:40PM
That, while evil, is not a violation of their oath of office. Or, if you consider what they are doing an act of war, treason. There are even those who argue that it is necessary, because "they're doing it too".
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 2) by davester666 on Friday August 29 2014, @06:16PM
Assumes facts not in evidence, namely that there are boundaries that are enforced in some manner.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by wantkitteh on Friday August 29 2014, @11:46AM
1. Build huge database on your citizen's communication habits
2. Build search engine to conveniently present it to your LEO comrades
3. ?
4. Prophet!
I'll get my coat...
(Score: 2) by DrMag on Friday August 29 2014, @03:00PM
Wait.. the NSA is becoming a religion?
(Score: 5, Interesting) by SlimmPickens on Friday August 29 2014, @11:55AM
Love that Google mockup, instead of Search and Feeling Lucky it's got NSA Search and I'm Feeling Invasive
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 29 2014, @12:15PM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recorded_Future [wikipedia.org]
http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomgroenfeldt/2011/11/29/recorded-future-big-data-from-the-internet-sees-into-the-future/ [forbes.com]
http://www.wired.com/2010/07/exclusive-google-cia/ [wired.com]