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Watch the Watchers with Federal Contracts Database

posted by janrinok on Thursday March 20 2014, @11:02PM   Printer-friendly
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: 4, Insightful) by d on Friday March 21 2014, @02:41AM

    by d (523) on Friday March 21 2014, @02:41AM (#19140)

    The problem is that watchers are going to watch the watchers that watch the watchers.

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  • (Score: 2) by d on Friday March 21 2014, @02:44AM

    by d (523) on Friday March 21 2014, @02:44AM (#19141)

    On the other hand, what happens if these are the same watchers...? Okay, I think that my head exploded.