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A newly declassified report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence reveals that the federal government is buying troves of
The United States government has been secretly amassing a âlarge amountâ of âsensitive and intimate informationâ on its own citizens, a group of senior advisers informed Avril Haines, the director of national intelligence, more than a year ago.Â
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.Â
What that report ended up saying constitutes a nightmare scenario for privacy defenders.Â
âThis report reveals what we feared most,â says Sean Vitka, a policy attorney at the nonprofit Demand Progress. âIntelligence agencies are flouting the law and buying information about Americans that Congress and the Supreme Court have made clear the government should not have.âÂ
In the shadow of years of inaction by the US Congress on comprehensive privacy reform, a surveillance state has been quietly growing in the legal system's cracks. Little deference is paid by prosecutors to the purpose or intent behind limits traditionally imposed on domestic surveillance activities. More craven interpretations of aging laws are widely used to ignore them. As the framework guarding what privacy Americans do have grows increasingly frail, opportunities abound to split hairs in court over whether such rights are even enjoyed by our digital counterparts.
âIâve been warning for years that if using a credit card to buy an Americanâs personal information voids their Fourth Amendment rights, then traditional checks and balances for government surveillance will crumble,â Ron Wyden, a US senator from Oregon, says.Â
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) did not immediately respond to a request for comment. WIRED was unable to reach any members of the senior advisory panel, whose names have been redacted in the report. Former members have included ex-CIA officials of note and top defense industry leaders.
Wyden had pressed Haines, previously the number two at the Central Intelligence Agency, to release the panel's report during a March 8 hearing. Haines replied at the time that she believed it âabsolutelyâ should be read by the public. On Friday, the report was declassified and released by the ODNI, which has been embroiled in a legal fight with the digital rights nonprofit the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) over a host of related documents.Â
âThis report makes it clear that the government continues to think it can buy its way out of constitutional protections using taxpayersâ own money," says Chris Baumohl, a law fellow at EPIC. âCongress must tackle the governmentâs data broker pipeline this year, before it considers any reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act,â he said (referring to the ongoing political fight over the so-called âcrown jewelâ of US surveillance).Â
The ODNI's own panel of advisers makes clear that the governmentâs static interpretations of what constitutes âpublicly available informationâ poses a significant threat to the public. The advisers decry existing policies that automatically conflate, in the first place, being able to buy information with it being considered âpublic.â The information being commercially sold about Americans today is âmore revealing, available on more people (in bulk), less possible to avoid, and less well understoodâ than that which is traditionally thought of as being âpublicly available.â
Perhaps most controversially, the report states that the government believes it can âpersistentlyâ track the phones of âmillions of Americansâ without a warrant, so long as it pays for the information. Were the government to simply demand access to a device's location instead, it would be considered a Fourth Amendment âsearchâ and would require a judge's sign-off. But because companies are willing to sell the informationânot only to the US government but to other companies as wellâthe government considers it âpublicly availableâ and therefore asserts that it âcan purchase it.â
It is no secret, the report adds, that it is often trivial âto deanonymize and identify individualsâ from data that was packaged as ethically fine for commercial use because it had been âanonymizedâ first. Such data may be useful, it says, to âidentify every person who attended a protest or rally based on their smartphone location or ad-tracking records.â Such civil liberties concerns are prime examples of how âlarge quantities of nominally âpublicâ information can result in sensitive aggregations.â What's more, information collected for one purpose âmay be reused for other purposes,â which may âraise risks beyond those originally calculated,â an effect called âmission creep.âÂ
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You will be a scab. Scabs are barred from union membership. By crossing the picket line to get your foot in the door youâll be burning one of the most important bridges in your life. You will actively be harming your future job prospects.
This strike will end one day. Those writers who are out picketing will reenter the writers room and start producing work with the legal and financial protections and guarantees theyâre fighting for, and you will not be among their ranks. You will be a scab. A traitor.
A lack of union membership will harm your prospects job wise. Do not scab. Knowledge of your scabbing, traitorous ways will cost you your ability to make friends in the industry. Do not scab. Support the WGA as they fight for your rights. Do. Not. Scab.
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