U.S. Gov't Official: Say Goodbye to Privacy

Ya terrorist.

Privacy no longer can mean anonymity

Lolcat legislation?

http://gingrey.houseenews.net/images/user_images/Patriotism.JPG

Ms. Yeo Jin Jung, a student at Kennesaw Mountain High School, is this year’s 11th District Congressional Art Competition winner. Her art work (above), oil on canvas titled “Patriotism,” was submitted by the school’s art teacher, Linda Nicholson, and principal, Sue Gunderman. “Patriotism” will be displayed at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. for the next year.

“I am always impressed by the talent of our young Georgia artists,” said Rep. Gingrey, who sponsors the competition. “Yeo Jin’s artwork is powerful, and speaks to the hard work of our troops around the globe. The painting will move many Americans as it hangs in the U.S. Capitol.”

http://www.loc.gov/wiseguide/july03/images/patriotism-a.jpg

ARLINGTON, Va. - Vice President Dick Cheney paid tribute Sunday to veterans of the Iraq war, honoring them for keeping the United States democratic and free and hoping "they will return in victory."

In a 10-minute Veterans Day speech at Arlington National Cemetery, Cheney said soldiers from World War I to "the current fight against terrorism" have served their country valiantly and "above all they kept us free at the land we call home."

"Free to live as we see fit, free to work, worship, speak our minds, to choose our own leaders," the vice president said. "May the rest of us never take them for granted."

Cheney quoted Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, in saying troops there are fighting in a complex and challenging situation, and praised them for a "magnificent job."

"Our conduct of our military today and throughout our nation's history makes this country very proud," Cheney said. "It is our prayer they will return in victory, safely home, to live out their lives and be here to observe many Veterans Days to come."

President Bush, who spent the weekend at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, planned to visit an American Legion post in nearby Waco and make remarks Sunday afternoon.

Kerr elaborates:

Anonymity results from a lack of identifying features. Nowadays, when so much correlated data is collected and available – and I’m just talking about profiles on MySpace, Facebook, YouTube here – the set of identifiable features has grown beyond where most of us can comprehend. We need to move beyond the construct that equates anonymity with privacy and focus more on how we can protect essential privacy in this interconnected environment.

Protecting anonymity isn’t a fight that can be won. Anyone that’s typed in their name on Google understands that. Instead, privacy, I would offer, is a system of laws, rules, and customs with an infrastructure of Inspectors General, oversight committees, and privacy boards on which our intelligence community commitment is based and measured. And it is that framework that we need to grow and nourish and adjust as our cultures change.

So he's using technology advances -- which many people see as a means of extending democracy and giving a voice to more citizens -- as a basis for narrowing the definition of privacy. Clever, in a twisted way.

Link: Kerr's comments.

"Anyone that’s typed in their name on Google understands that."

http://www.google.com/logos/veterans07.gif

Anyone that’s typed in their name on Google understands that.

that's rich, coming from a public figure. the only results for my name are
1 a question i posted publicly regarding puredata development
2 shit from when i was in boy scouts
3 my crazy friend put my name all over his blog because he is crazy

both of my parents have zero results, as do most of my friends.

but whatever govt. hit me with your best shot.

Privacy no longer can mean anonymity, says Donald Kerr, the principal deputy director of national intelligence. Instead, it should mean that government and businesses properly safeguards people's private communications and financial information.

You'd think that Kerr or whoever wrote this for him might've tried to sound just a fraction less like a 1984 spoof.

Post Commander Clayton Hueske admitted being nervous, but said he was proud to have Bush in attendance at the emotional event, which ended with the audience joining a soloist in singing "God Bless America."

A bugler played taps. Post officials offered comforting words to the fallen troops' families and presented them with honorary plaques and flags that have flown over the state capitol.

"These men and women saw the future of the terrorists' intent for our country and they said with clear voices, 'Not on my watch,'" Bush said of the troops.

"America is blessed to have such brave defenders. They are tomorrow's veterans and they are bringing pride to our country. Their service is noble and it is necessary," he said. "The enemies who attacked us six years ago want to strike our country again, and next time they hope to kill Americans on a scale that will make 9/11 pale by comparison."

next time they hope to kill Americans on a scale that will make 9/11 pale by comparison.

I'm sure that's true. But (a) I'm sick of this Administration grossly oversimplifying complicated problems and (b) the way to effectively fight back is not to use the existence of terrorist groups as a pretext to gash civil liberties and bludgeon your political adversaries. And let’s also not forget that, while terrorism is a serious concern, it is not at all easy to pull off major terrorist attacks (otherwise, they’d occur much more regularly), and – for that reason, among others – we shouldn’t utterly eviscerate our liberties in response to anticipated future attacks.

Nor indeed eviscerate even more tangible susbtances than liberty. Like skin and arms and stomachs.

wrong board

Nor indeed eviscerate even more tangible susbtances than liberty. Like skin and arms and stomachs.

Not sure what you mean. I'm not trying to be a jackass, I'm just not sure if you're making a point in support of, or in opposition to, Kerr's comments (for that matter, I'm not which view Scott holds, either).

I'M A DULLARD, but a sincere one.

Yay team!

http://mathbabe.org/2013/04/24/big-data-and-surveillance/

Oh, and this

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57581161-38/u.s-gives-big-secret-push-to-internet-surveillance/

did we miss this...?

Robert Mueller tells Congress surveillance drones have been used by the FBI

http://www.salon.com/2013/06/19/fbi_admits_to_using_drones_over_u_s_soil/

Mueller’s admissions highlighted the lack of legislation currently in place to govern the use drone technology at home.

Thanks Congress

A private company has captured 2.2 billion photos of license plates in cities throughout America. It stores them in a database, tagged with the location where they were taken. And it is selling that data.

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/01/vigilant-solutions-surveillance/427047/

adding another layer of privacy violation

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/27/us-facial-recognition-database-fbi-drivers-licenses-passports

Approximately half of adult Americans’ photographs are stored in facial recognition databases that can be accessed by the FBI, without their knowledge or consent, in the hunt for suspected criminals. About 80% of photos in the FBI’s network are non-criminal entries, including pictures from driver’s licenses and passports. The algorithms used to identify matches are inaccurate about 15% of the time, and are more likely to misidentify black people than white people.

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“No federal law controls this technology, no court decision limits it. This technology is not under control,” said Alvaro Bedoya, executive director of the center on privacy and technology at Georgetown Law.

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Unlike with the collection of fingerprints and DNA, which is done following an arrest, photos of innocent civilians are being collected proactively. The FBI made arrangements with 18 different states to gain access to their databases of driver’s license photos.

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Even the companies that develop facial recognition technology believe it needs to be more tightly controlled. Brian Brackeen, CEO of Kairos, told the Guardian he was “not comfortable” with the lack of regulation. Kairos helps movie studios and ad agencies study the emotional response to their content and provides facial recognition in theme parks to allow people to find and buy photos of themselves.