The U.S. government "kill[s] people based on metadata," but it doesn't do that with the trove of information collected on American communications, according to former head of the National Security Agency Gen. Michael Hayden.
Hayden made the remark after saying he agreed with the idea that metadata - the information collected by the NSA about phone calls and other communications that does not include content - can tell the government "everything" about anyone it's targeting for surveillance, often making the actual content of the communication unnecessary.
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"We cannot discount the risk, in light of the lessons of our own history, that at some point in the future, high-level government officials will decide that this massive database of extraordinarily sensitive private information is there for the plucking," the President's Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies said in a 300-page report.
The next month, Obama complied, announcing the metadata will no longer be collected by the government, but will still be stored by another entity and could be subject to government review.
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Old but gold. Best part:
We cannot discount the risk [...] that at some point in the future, high-level government officials will decide that this massive database of extraordinarily sensitive private information is there for the plucking [...]
Obama complied, announcing the metadata will no longer be collected by the government, but [...] could be subject to government review.
Another good part for me is that I heard this quote ("we kill people based on metadata") from Michael Hayden for the first time in a lecture about privacy-enhancing technologies.
I think the term based was never more fitting for a lecture.
245 sats \ 1 reply \ @Nuttall 3 Feb
Here is the extraordinary part of this. When he says, "we" he is thinking it is all a group effort and thus the sin of manslaughter is absorbed by all or absolved by acting in the interest of government. No further truth can be obscured by lying to one's self and others and they know this. At least at the very top of the pyramid they know this.
The fact is that if you kill other men, women and children for any reason other than direct self defense you will pay a price for this. You will be held accountable. You are not only responsible for your own happiness but you are responsible for the well being and kindness toward others by not taking what they have not given.
All crime is theft. Manslaughter is theft of life and more specifically it is theft of human life. Mankind or humans are a sacred balance of life of the universe as bridge between energy movement. We are the awareness of that movement. When we steal from other humans we are in fact stealing from ourselves. There is no integrity by theft.
Rape is sexual theft. Taxes are the theft of work. Violence is the theft of care. All theft is the opposition of the Principal of Care. If you have not given, voluntarily, something then it is theft. This is how the dark occult operate against humanity. To them they believe exactly the above principals but they strive to convince you to act so they do not have to.
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Invalid contracts formed through deceit do not meet the meeting of the minds test underpinning what it means for an agreement to be legally valid. Hence, shitcoinery and other forms of fraud are theft.
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40 sats \ 1 reply \ @fred 3 Feb
This is so fxxked, you just have to be careful what you post online else an A.I or algorithm might mark you for death.
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Well, for 95% of the population, that is
Nice to be American
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Strong "Minority Report" vibes... lol Crap, the Matrix is real....
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This is happening every day
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Always has been. The most important thing we can do is not do this directly or support that others do it on our behalf.
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Old news now.
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