"...help the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center build a controversial license plates database for California."
This worries me. A license plate database should be trivial, recording a simple event; what, where and when. So when a company like Palantir gets involved, you can be sure that heaps and heaps of (expensive) data analysis and mining is going to take place. Inference upon inference. Mashed up with other datasets into some big-picture. Pseudo data. In haystacks. And all for no sane reason.
Exactly so. I read ages ago (possibly here) that PayPal voluntarily and routinely passes on financial information, en masse, to US law enforcement. That doesn't sit well with me. I avoid PayPal like the plague.
It depends on whether the office is overlooked. If it is, there should be those reflective tinted privacy screens over the glass.
I'm guessing the documents have a minimum protective marking of "Restricted", in which case none of the above measures are out of place. Expect a signing-in book at the entrance, and a no-bags or briefcases policy. Possibly even a no-access rule for uncleared staff. Politicians should be used to this.
What IS highly unusual is the overt threat from the US in the event of non-compliance.
Roughly the same that BP were fined for their part in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf. There's a clear contrast between BP's acceptance of blame, funding the cleanup operation, pleading guilty and accepting the subsequent fines, and Texaco/Chevron, who have gone to such staggering lengths to avoid, well, everything.
True, this report debunks the FBI's claim that things will be "going dark" (what a ridiculous expression). But it does this by saying law enforcement shouldn't worry because there will be ever more opportunities to snoop because trends.
IT should be evolving towards ever greater security, not less.
"...being shared not only with LE, but also with insurers, debt collectors and corporations willing to pay. I think we're going to be seeing pushback in this area soon as well."
This is a particular grievance of mine, and it applies to personal data in general. Personal data has NEVER been regarded as belonging to the data subject, and even under the most protective regimes, as long as it's declared by the collector to some authority to some degree, it's free to be disclosed to just about anyone willing to pay for it.
"...it was one of the darkest points in the country's history."
I have to disagree. To my mind the French in Haiti and Indochina, and perhaps also their treatment of their other colonies such as Algeria and Morocco was far darker...
"History shows that the French population is pretty good at revolutions - it may be time for another one."
Despite their unjust and undeserved "Cheese Eating Surrender Monkey" tag, the French are notorious for not putting up with any kind of crap from their governments. So I find the last few years very perplexing...
I wouldn't mess with the librarians. Seriously. They may not have the deepest pockets, but they're as smart as Yoda, utterly fearless, and on the side of liberty, justice and the All American Way.
Created by the Nazi government in the mid-thirties, they're responsible for killing off music being aired in public spaces. They've gone after market stalls, kindergartens, schools, pubs, hotels, garages, shops... This ongoing farce with YouTube is just embarrassing.
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"...help the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center build a controversial license plates database for California."
This worries me. A license plate database should be trivial, recording a simple event; what, where and when. So when a company like Palantir gets involved, you can be sure that heaps and heaps of (expensive) data analysis and mining is going to take place. Inference upon inference. Mashed up with other datasets into some big-picture. Pseudo data. In haystacks. And all for no sane reason.
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No arguments from me, but they're really going to have to get the price down.
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I'm guessing the documents have a minimum protective marking of "Restricted", in which case none of the above measures are out of place. Expect a signing-in book at the entrance, and a no-bags or briefcases policy. Possibly even a no-access rule for uncleared staff. Politicians should be used to this.
What IS highly unusual is the overt threat from the US in the event of non-compliance.
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$18 Billion
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The USA
What, no giant Uncle Sam on stilts? For shame, Trump.
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Depressing
IT should be evolving towards ever greater security, not less.
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Not quite true...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier-grade_NAT
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This is a particular grievance of mine, and it applies to personal data in general. Personal data has NEVER been regarded as belonging to the data subject, and even under the most protective regimes, as long as it's declared by the collector to some authority to some degree, it's free to be disclosed to just about anyone willing to pay for it.
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I have to disagree. To my mind the French in Haiti and Indochina, and perhaps also their treatment of their other colonies such as Algeria and Morocco was far darker...
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Re: Nuke 'em
Despite their unjust and undeserved "Cheese Eating Surrender Monkey" tag, the French are notorious for not putting up with any kind of crap from their governments. So I find the last few years very perplexing...
Take bread, sacred to the French, but even they've been succumbing to the evil British Chorleywood menace. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-13670278
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I'd always end up losing...
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Not data, but someone's view.
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I loathe GEMA with every fibre of my being...
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Pardon me if I remain sceptical.
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