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C.I.A. Is Collecting in Bulk Certain Data Affecting Americans, Senators Warn
The Central Intelligence Agency has for years been collecting in bulk, without a warrant, some kind of data that can affect Americans' privacy, according to a newly declassified letter by two senators.
The C.I.A. kept censored the nature of the data when it declassified the letter. At the same time, it declared that a report about the same topic, which had prompted the letter, must remain fully classified, except for some heavily redacted recommendations.
That report, called "Deep Dive II," was part of a set of studies by a watchdog board scrutinizing intelligence community operations under Executive Order 12333, rules for intelligence activities that Congress has left unregulated by statute. The watchdog, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, and its staff members have access to classified information.
In March 2021, the Senate Intelligence Committee received a copy of the report. In a letter the next month, two Democrats on the panel, Senators Ron Wyden of Oregon and Martin Heinrich of New Mexico, urged Avril D. Haines, the director of national intelligence, and William J. Burns, the C.I.A. director, to declassify the activity and any internal rules about querying the data for information about Americans.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 14 2022, @05:07AM (11 children)
Corporations can't send men with guns to torture, kill, or enslave you.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 14 2022, @05:21AM
Like the Trump protestors of 1/6.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 14 2022, @06:32AM
At least not yet. Give it time.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 14 2022, @06:47AM
They do it in the movies.
(Score: 4, Touché) by mhajicek on Monday February 14 2022, @07:23AM
Sure they can. Corporations write bills, buy congresspeople to pass them into law, and then the government enforces that law with lethal force.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 14 2022, @11:01AM
...inside the USA. Remember Blackwater? The corporation operatives that killed Iraqi civilians and were pardoned by Trump?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 14 2022, @11:12AM (1 child)
Unless they are the East India Company. Invaded and conquered a nation of many millions, and killed and tortured a lot.
(Score: 2) by https on Monday February 14 2022, @10:00PM
Which one? The Dutch East India Company, or the British East India Company?
Oh, wait.
Offended and laughing about it.
(Score: 2) by MIRV888 on Monday February 14 2022, @11:37AM (1 child)
Corporations can sell whatever data they gather to whoever they want. That includes governments.
It's not a question of being assaulted by a corporation.
Corporations' only interest is making money.
No ethics, no warrants, no fair play, no privacy.
Willingly letting devices listen to every conversation you have in your home and relay that data is just plain creepy to me.
It's 1984 but corporate.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 14 2022, @02:44PM
That'd easily solved by freedom of association.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 14 2022, @02:12PM (1 child)
If you could just name the first two corporations formed, you would likely STFU after maybe apologizing for wasting everyone's time with basic errors.
Ya basic.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 14 2022, @02:45PM
"Blah, blah, I got nuthin"