He openly declared: 1) the CIA's role is collecting human information. 2) He was indeed going to collect data on every human being worldwide (his words). 3) But it will be done without any bias or political agenda influence.
Well yea, you will collect it all raw unfiltered and no bias. Who cares!! The question is what are you going to do with it? Since you are collecting on... well, I don't recall anybody asking me if I was okay with it! Any of you?
Are we okay with that? Do we really want ANYBODY housing profiles of every human? Is there any necessary or good reason to support a need and purpose for this... that is good? I can sure think of a lot of bad uses.
Sorry... and btw I like Radcliffe, but he stated this unequivocally. I went back and re-listened and I didn't misunderstand his statements.
(scratching my head)
I don't know how new to this type of information you are, but the NSA's project Eschelon has been recording and logging every phone conversation, email and text sent by everyone on the planet since before the start of this millennium.
If you have Google maps on your phone, then your real-time conversations within earshot of the phone, even while not in use, are recorded, analyzed and archived by AI and forwarded to the NSA.
Why are you not concerned over private corporations doing it but uptight when our government does it for intelligence purposes?
Valid points. And yes, I have always been aware and concerned. Every service we contract with has the same all-access rights of the provider. I was attached to one of the original teams that wrote the cell phone contracts (For one of the largest providers) and the language was inserted specifically to collect and sell the data... even before the market for the data was matured.
My point was global and not restricted to a government. I am against any single entity positioned with that amount of power over our personal data. I challenge anyone to list the positive uses for this verses the nefarious uses. The argument is it makes it easier to find and prosecute the bad guys... while true, who gets to define the bad guys? Is this really too large of an avalanche to reverse? Somehow, I don't think so. I think these harvesting agreements can be deemed illegal.
You kind of replied to the wrong post but regardless, I agree with you. I think the solution is to have congress make laws declaring that access to the internet, phone, text, email, and search engines are essential services, and then create laws disallowing corporate and governmental exploitation of these essential services, thus re-establishing privacy rights to the individual while protecting against denial of essential services.
I just don’t want anyone listening, watching or monitoring everything I do. Do you?
It isn’t that I have anything to hide.., it is that I don’t have anything I want to share. That is my choice and not anyone else’s.
No, I do not want anyone recording, logging and or selling my private conversations. I think it is a violation of my right to privacy.
I guess I was pointing out that when we click, I Agree, to terms and service for free email or navigation systems, we become the product and give up our rights to privacy. Like Facebook, Google development was DARPA funded but it is a privately traded company which allows the Government to get around pesky little things like Rights To Privacy.
When you buy a smart phone and set it up, by clicking I agree to the software on the OS you just gave up your rights to privacy, you your data and thoughts become commercial assets which are sold to ad agencies and freely shared to the government that funded their creation.
If you do not like it then stop using your smart phone, smart TV, computer and internet and buy a car made before 2004.
It sucks but it is what it is and John Ratcliff stating he will use these tools available to the intelligence agencies does not make him a bad guy, just an honest realist.
This.