CIA is secretly collecting bulk data pertaining to Americans.

[The Evil Genius]

 

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The CIA has a secret, undisclosed data repository that includes information collected about Americans, two Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee said Thursday. While neither the agency nor lawmakers would disclose specifics about the data, the senators alleged the CIA had long hidden details about the program from the public and Congress.

 

Sens. Ron Wyden of Oregon and Martin Heinrich of New Mexico sent a letter to top intelligence officials calling for more details about the program to be declassified. Large parts of the letter, which was sent in April 2021 and declassified Thursday, and documents released by the CIA were blacked out. Wyden and Heinrich said the program operated “outside the statutory framework that Congress and the public believe govern this collection.”

 

There have long been concerns about what information the intelligence community collects domestically, driven in part by previous violations of Americans’ civil liberties. The CIA and National Security Agency have a foreign mission and are generally barred from investigating Americans or U.S. businesses. But the spy agencies’ sprawling collection of foreign communications often snares Americans’ messages and data incidentally.

 

Edited February 11, 2022 by The Evil Genius

[tshile]

I thought this was already known?

 

i mean how many different, specific “nsa/cia has this system that spies on everyone” stories do we need before everyone just assumes this is what they do?

[China]

I guess it's not a secret anymore.

[Larry]

50 minutes ago, tshile said:

I thought this was already known?

 

i mean how many different, specific “nsa/cia has this system that spies on everyone” stories do we need before everyone just assumes this is what they do?

 

I knew about it at least as far back as W.  Because the W administration actually said, on camera, that they were doing it.  

 

There would be a claim that the NSA was keeping a database of every phone call made in the world.  Including domestic calls between citizens.  

 

And when asked about it, every single administration would say "The NSA is not recording all of your phone calls."  

 

Which is a response that was deliberately written for the purpose of sounding like a denial.  Without actually being a denial.  

 

And the fact that every single one of them used exactly the same phrase, says that it was a scripted response.  That the administration had intentionally picked a "denial" that does not actually say "they're not keeping records on your calls".  

[tshile]

Yeah and then they were like “we’re just collecting the metadata”

 

Like, you know, who you are, where you are, when you called them, who ‘them’ is, how long you talked to them, and probably your phones IMEI…

 

you know, metadata, the stuff Facebook and Google collects about us and turned into multi-billion dollar companies with. 

No big deal. 

[Ball Security]

The file on me reads an inappropriate mix of football reference and pornography.  Not sure what the man is going to do with me.  Maybe roll out an awareness plan stating that one can use the internet for more than two things.

[Spaceman Spiff]

Man, the Tailgate is super depressing these days.  You know ****s bad when you'd rather hang in the Stadium.  CIA being creepy, infant murderer getting released debate, the never ending Trump stuff, Ontario truckers running amok, apple/facebook/google drama, pandemic threads, GOP/QOP. racism and the Washington Wizards.  

[TradeTheBeal!]

So, cookies?  Whatever.

[tshile]

6 minutes ago, Spaceman Spiff said:

Washington Wizards.  

Hey they had a hell of a day yesterday !!

[RabidFan]

20 minutes ago, Spaceman Spiff said:

Man, the Tailgate is super depressing these days.  You know ****s bad when you'd rather hang in the Stadium.  CIA being creepy, infant murderer getting released debate, the never ending Trump stuff, Ontario truckers running amok, apple/facebook/google drama, pandemic threads, GOP/QOP. racism and the Washington Wizards.  

 

Don't forget the litter boxes in grade school bathrooms for the furries.  🤣

 

[Destino]

And nothing will be done about it.  Let’s not forget that the CIA hacked congress, got caught, and nothing happened.  
 

checks and balances has proven to be as real as George Washington’s cherry tree myth.  

[PleaseBlitz]

How is this different than Facebook?

[purbeast]

I couldn't care less.  Having data and using it are two different things.  It's not like they have people looking at all this data and scraping it and spying on people who are just living their every day live.  

 

Google your home address.  Look how many people have that information and data out there for the public.  Whoopity ****ing doo.  Who cares?

 

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I also find it funny how like 95% of people worrying about this (probably more) either use an Android phone and/or Facebook, and they are concerned about their privacy.

Edited February 11, 2022 by purbeast

[Llevron]

I would collect data on Americans too if about 38% of them were hell bent on destroying the government and burning the country to the ground. 
 

I would probably put some resources into stopping them too. But whateves I guess. 

[Destino]

32 minutes ago, PleaseBlitz said:

How is this different than Facebook?

CIA doesn’t make it as easy for Russia to access and use their data.