On 10/09/2015 06:00 AM, Steve Kinney wrote:
Lest we forget, the original PRISM slides were, at minimum, heavily altered by the Guardian and/or Post.
Certainly didn't affect people understanding the threat to civil society.
Meet Jack. Or, What The Government Could Do With All That Location Data
“…just a taste of what this powerful new (NSA) system is capable of. We look forward to working with your department for many years to come in our mutual efforts to keep America a safe and controlled place where no one, no matter where they are, can commit wrongdoing.”
We now know that the NSA is collecting location information en masse. As we’ve long said, location data is an extremely powerful set of information about people. To flesh out why that is true, here is the kind of future memo that we fear may someday soon be uncovered:
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Dear commissioner:
Now that we have finalized our systems for the acquisition and processing of Americans’ location data (using data from cell phone and license plate readers as well as other sources), I wanted to give you a quick taste of our new system’s capabilities in the domestic policing context.
As you can see in this screen shot from our new application, an individual by the name of Jack R. Benjamin yesterday was flagged as a potential DUI risk…
Full PowerPoint Presentation, NSA/police agency style, At The ACLU. https://www.aclu.org/feature/meet-jack?redirect=meet-jack-or-what-government...