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| UK's GCHQ and 'Contact Chaining' - Was Judge Napolitano on to something ? |
| 2017-04-08 |
| [UK Independend 20 Nov 2013] Tony Blair’s government gave America permission to store and analyse the email, mobile phone and internet records of potentially millions of innocent Britons. At the same time US security officials drew up plans to spy on British citizens unilaterally, without the knowledge of the UK government. The revelations have emerged in leaked documents obtained by the National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden. Moving down a bit, key paragraphs follow: It shows the NSA was still barred from making any UK citizen a target of surveillance that would look at the content of their communications without getting a warrant. However, they were “authorised to unmask UK contact identifiers resulting from incidental collection”, “utilise the UK contact identifiers in Sigint development contact chaining analysis” and “retain unminimised UK contact identifiers incidentally collected under this authority within content and metadata stores”. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #8 It's already been used for political ends, that didn't take long. Well...as long as it's legal I would assume Trump admin will be using it now. Thanks Dems, this will be handy. |
| Posted by: Theatch Thaiting5261 2017-04-08 23:45 |
| #7 Abu, concur, it makes no sense. I think the abyssal reason it occurs, senselessly, is that neither feds nor think tanks nor academics nor lawyers have seen and developed a strategic counter-narrative to Salafi or Shi'a Jihad. They have gone kinetic on Jihadis. But they leave untouched Jihad itself. I think there is such a counter-narrative: essentially, scrape away Asharite Islam (since 18th Century, called Salafi Jihad) and poison its root to reveal the Mutazilite Islam substrate that is civil and productive. The counter-narrative for that is what in classical philosophy and theology is called Reason, which is also a common meeting ground of Christianity, Hinduism and Mutazilite Islam. India is part of this business as much as Five Eyes and Russia are. |
| Posted by: TopRev 2017-04-08 23:35 |
| #6 Better to keep the terrorists outta here in the first place. Just kidding. I agree with you. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2017-04-08 12:57 |
| #5 More and more we find ourselves either being inconvenienced or having our rights violated in the name of fighting terrorism while our government lets people into the country who have a high probability of being terrorists. It makes no sense. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2017-04-08 11:57 |
| #4 The IC has to balance privacy with detecting terror and other networks. Better to keep the terrorists outta here in the first place. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2017-04-08 11:55 |
| #3 The IC has to balance privacy with detecting terror and other networks. It's an uneasy balance. And it only works if we understand that and they act with integrity. |
| Posted by: Angusock Chuting6110 2017-04-08 09:51 |
| #2 A really useful look back, Besoeker. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2017-04-08 09:37 |
| #1 Remember the Google 'safe harbor' floating data havens? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-04-08 06:04 |