Commercially available data is just as good as bugging someone.
Surprise, surprise, the US government is buying personal information, including location data, from commercial data brokers — and it may be worse than we knew, according to afrom the US Office of the Director of National Intelligence , an office headed by director Avril Haines, a US cabinet official who oversees the US intelligence community, which includes a host of military intelligence agencies, as well as the FBI, CIA, NSA, and others.
The ODNI paints a picture of a government indiscriminately sucking up data. In a series of recommendations, it urges the US intelligence community to catalog how it’s using the data — something it calls a “complex undertaking” that will require carefully reviewing things like procurement contracts. “The IC cannot understand and improve how it deals with CAI unless and until it knows what it is doing with CAI,” it says.
Worryingly , despite companies’ assurances that the data they collect can’t be tied to you, the ODNI acknowledges that it’s “often possible” to deanonymize people by cross-referencing the data. The issue “raises significant issues related to privacy and civil liberties,” says the report, citing that as the reason the community needs to be careful with the data.CAI Increases the Power of the Government.
But contrasting those issues, the ODNI doesn’t recommend ceasing the use of CAI, writing, “CAI clearly provides intelligence value... whether reviewed by humans and/or by machines.” While it doesn’t say if machine processing is being used for simple searches and filtering or advanced artificial intelligence systems like facial recognition, the government
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