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NSA Chief Wants to Watch, as Well as Listen and Read

posted by cmn32480 on Sunday June 28 2015, @05:03AM   
from the government-overreach-at-its-finest dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

The National Security Agency, while primarily occupied by sweeping up billions of phone calls, emails, texts and social media messages each day, wants better visual information about the earth and its residents, too, Admiral Michael Rogers said Wednesday.

"Signals intelligence ... ain't enough, you guys," the NSA chief told a gathering of contractors in the geospatial intelligence business. "We gotta create a much broader picture."

We need "the ability to visualize," he explained, because "man is fundamentally a visual creature."

Rogers, who also heads the Pentagon's United States Cyber Command, spent much of his keynote speech at the GEOINT 2015 conference pitching the technology, intelligence and defense companies in the audience on the importance of working together. The conference's slogan — appropriate, given the government's ever-growing demands — is "open the aperture."

"It's all about partnerships," Rogers told the audience. "How can we harness the power of the commercial sector?"

In how many other ways could the Director of the NSA gain a new perspective on the world?

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Original Submission

• Re:Americans stop acting like its not your fault (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 28 2015, @07:19PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 28 2015, @07:19PM (#202480)

  Every fucking one of you is the reason this is happening, the NSA is a construct of your xenophobia and apathy.

  Xenophobia? Mass surveillance is being conducted domestically as well. Apathy? For most people that is true, not everyone.

  You're using a hasty generalization. Maybe you should rely less on logical fallacies. Some people protest, vote accordingly, and donate to organizations that will fight mass surveillance (EFF, ACLU, etc.). It's like you're blaming individual people for not being able to single-handedly change everyone else's minds, but that same logic would apply to you and whatever horrendous nonsense is happening in your country.

  This fake internet outrage

  In what way is it fake?

  Every single one of you is the god damn cause of it.

  Then you are also responsible for whatever mass surveillance or unethical spying is happening in your country, if it exists (and it likely does). France, Germany, Canada, Australia, the UK, and others all have all sorts of issues that need to be fixed relating to the security state. It doesn't matter which country's spying is the most bad; your logical applies to all. Therefore, no matter how much you protest or oppose some policy and no matter how much you vote for candidates who oppose bad policies, you're still responsible somehow. Amazing logic, right?

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