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The US Is Openly Stockpiling Dirt on All Its Citizens (www.wired.com)

submitted 1 year ago by backyardfarmer to c/technology

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"The United States government has been secretly amassing a “large amount” of “sensitive and intimate information” on its own citizens, a group of senior advisers informed Avril Haines, the director of national intelligence, more than a year ago.

The size and scope of the government effort to accumulate data revealing the minute details of Americans' lives are described soberly and at length by the director's own panel of experts in a newly declassified report. Haines had first tasked her advisers in late 2021 with untangling a web of secretive business arrangements between commercial data brokers and US intelligence community members."

I thought that this was timely and relevant. Does federalization/decentralization solve these issues as we go into Web3? I'm newer to these ideas.

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[–] Dave_r@reddthat.com 20 points 1 year ago

If I read it right: the government is paying for commercial (phone) location data. There are 3 issues:

creepy: the government shouldn't have this
costly: they are buying it with our tax dollars
comprehensive (?): They are getting everything (money can buy)?

If the government were to require this (like via a search warrant) rather than pay for it it would go through a mountain of legal oversight. It seems like the interpretation is: commercially available = publically available.

I guess what I would want to know next is: who gets access to this?