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on Thursday March 20 2014, @11:02PM
from the quis-custodiet-ipsos-custodes? dept.
from the quis-custodiet-ipsos-custodes? dept.
Angry Jesus writes:
"The EFF has put together a quick tutorial on using FedBizOpps to see what sorts of surveillance technologies US federal agencies have been buying.
Examples of documents that anyone can retrieve from the database include the Director of National Intelligence's funding of a program to dramatically increase facial recognition algorithms, the FBI purchasing fiber-optic tapping systems and a contract for drone programs in Burundi, Kenya and Uganda."
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 21 2014, @01:58AM
And what I suppose you'd be able to find through fbo.gov is only the tip of the iceberg. There's loads of stuff that's classified and doesn't show up there at all, and there are also the proverbial $20,000 hammers and $30,000 toilet seats that hide even more scary shit they really don't want anyone to know about.