U.S. Intelligence Official: Privacy Is a Soviet Style Bureaucracy That Knows Everything About You
November 12th, 2007In other words, anonymity is out, but trust us to implement, “a system of laws, rules, and customs with an infrastructure of Inspectors General, oversight committees, and privacy boards on which our intelligence community commitment is based and measured.”
You can already see where this is going: We don’t want to do this, but the terrorists give us no choice. Besides, you have no anonymity anyway. (Read the full transcript.)
This isn’t a question of some theoretical, far out situation in the future.
It’s built. Done. Operational:
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Anyone who doubts it hasn’t been paying attention.
Via: Arstechnica:
Donald Kerr, a top intelligence official with the US government, says that citizens need to change their definition of privacy to match the government’s definition, the AP reports. Appointed Director of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) in 2005, Kerr is now the principal deputy director of national intelligence. Kerr is one of many in the intelligence community who finds Americans’ views on privacy to be antiquated and unreasonable.
Kerr echoes the view that privacy is not synonymous with anonymity. Americans who want to see anonymity at the center of privacy policies need to give up this notion, he says. “Too often, privacy has been equated with anonymity; and it’s an idea that is deeply rooted in American culture… but in our interconnected and wireless world, anonymity – or the appearance of anonymity – is quickly becoming a thing of the past,” Kerr said according to a PDF transcript of his comments.
Americans need to shift their definition of privacy to center instead on the proper maintenance and protection of personal data by government and business entities. Kerr said that “privacy, I would offer, is a system of laws, rules, and customs with an infrastructure of Inspectors General, oversight committees, and privacy boards on which our intelligence community commitment is based and measured. And it is that framework that we need to grow and nourish and adjust as our cultures change.”
Would that be like how Hushmail has “managed” its customer’s privacy? It is to laugh.
‘Scuse me. Exactly who is this jack off anyway?
Like Alberto G. who thought U.S. laws on torture were quaint?
Right Mr. Kerr. I’ll change my definition on privacy when you get a grip on your bad else self. Tiny as it might be. Must be. Has to be.
IG oversight? That’s another “quaintism” buddy.
And I work for an IG. Yup. I do, I do, I do.
And you want to know what the Bush Administration has done with the IG oversight mechanism? Read This: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/17138667/bushs_lap_dogs
Did Mr. Kerr write a chapter in the novel 1984? Or did I miss something when I read the novel back in the 1970’s in English Literature?
Uh, am I dumb because I DO equate privacy with anonymity? NO! UH SHERLOCK, IF I WANTED YOU TO KNOW IT WAS ME I”D TELL YOU. ISN’T THAT QUAINT!
And yuh, this IS an idea that is deeply rooted in American culture, not like YOUR JOB. And Yah, I AM NOT MY SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER. SO I DON’T WANT YOU SPYING ON ME YOU PINHEAD.
TAKE YOUR EFFING PABLUM SPEECH AND DO SOMETHING ANATOMICALLY IMPOSSIBLE WITH IT.
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
DISCLOSURE IS PRIVACY