Corruption, 'Deep Politics', etc.
Clinamenic
Binary & Tweed
What is the tweet about? Its unavailable for me.
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
No doubt They got to it.
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Well-known member
That was the NSA.
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Well-known member
"Newly declassified documents reveal that the CIA has been secretly conducting massive surveillance programs that capture Americans’ private information."
Clinamenic
Binary & Tweed
Does anywhere in UK have any personal data protection laws? I hear some EU nations do, and it seems US is behind here.
sufi
lala
yeah UK is part of the EU GDPR regime
Clinamenic
Binary & Tweed
Does this manifest as an extra layer of disclosures/permissions you get from websites? Any noticeable impact on your experience?
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
Oh well that's alright then. But the CIA - that's another thing altogether! I thought they were so much better than that. 😠
Clinamenic
Binary & Tweed
I did see a mention of this actually, a Reuters headline about a couple congresspeople expressing outrage about a lack of congressional oversight over CIA operations. I tend to think unsupervised operations are warranted in some cases, thus the inter-branch stonewalling is warranted by extension.
But when it comes to data collection, I do think there needs to be oversight. That said, I know nothing about the particulars of this case.
But when it comes to data collection, I do think there needs to be oversight. That said, I know nothing about the particulars of this case.
Clinamenic
Binary & Tweed
I think non-total congressional oversight might be a requisite for true separation of power.
Clinamenic
Binary & Tweed
And also, given the advent of OSINT, the bulk of the actual information (to be rendered into intelligence) is out there for anyone with the know-how to obtain. Its my understanding that the elite intelligence actors are distinguished, now, less by their access to premier intelligence, and more by their access to expensive, enterprise-grade data analytics software.
Clinamenic
Binary & Tweed
Which ostensibly puts data analytics firms like Palantir at the zenith of power here.
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
sufi
lala
there are a few US websites that just closed their doors to Europe when GDPR came in.
GDPR imho meant that lots of websites put up cookie screens, and quite a few even implemented them correctly, though it was quite unclear what the deal was to start with
Clinamenic
Binary & Tweed
Screens, as in, to disallow cookies and third-party cookies? So you're actually going untraced in these cases?
sufi
lala
yeah, untraced by cookies anyway
that's obvs that's not the whole of gdpr - but ip addresses are as considered personal data, so permission is needed if you want to log them
& gdpr is not the whole of the issue with cookies - e.g. blocking them to avoid being tracked anonymously by ads
there are all sorts of other ways you might be getting tracked though
