A recent report from the Director of National Intelligence has unveiled that the U.S. government is buying vast quantities of Americans’ personal data.
A recent report from the Director of National Intelligence has unveiled that the U.S. government is buying vast quantities of Americans’ personal data generated by our cars, smartphones, and web browsers, mirroring the results of intrusive surveillance techniques and posing significant threats to privacy.that the U.S. government is exploiting commercially available information to learn everything it can about private citizens.
“In a way that far fewer Americans seem to understand, and even fewer of them can avoid, CAI includes information on nearly everyone that is of a type and level of sensitivity that historically could have been obtained,” the report stated. The data goes far behind simple information. It includes the thorough trails left behind by smartphones and their apps, social media sites, cars, and location-tracking gadgets like fitness watches. The report issued a caution, stating that such detailed information can now “cause harm to an individual’s reputation, emotional well-being, or physical safety.”
The report urged the intelligence community to improve its acquisition-related policies, practices, and safeguards. It also brought attention to how the intelligence community lacks transparency and oversight when it comes to the acquisition of private information. The report also acknowledged that few policies address the collection of such data and that the U.S. government has the ability to assign personal identities to the data. Wyden stated: “If the government can buy its way around Fourth Amendment due-process, there will be few meaningful limits on government surveillance.”
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