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Monday, November 27, 2023
Secretive White House Surveillance Program Gives Cops Access To Trillions of US Phone Records
A little-known surveillance program tracks more than a trillion domestic phone records within the United States each year, according to a letter WIRED obtained that was sent by US senator Ron Wyden to the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Sunday, challenging the program's legality. According to the letter, a surveillance program now known as Data Analytical Services (DAS) has for more than a decade allowed federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies to mine the details of Americans' calls, analyzing the phone records of countless people who are not suspected of any crime, including victims. Using a technique known as chain analysis, the program targets not only those in direct phone contact with a criminal suspect but anyone with whom those individuals have been in contact as well.
I am soooooo glad that I was too busy on J6 to call my great-aunt in DC. 😡😡😡😡😡😡
ReplyDeleteThis is my surprised face.
ReplyDeleteFuck em!
ReplyDeleteI wonder what info I could find on myself via a FOIA request... might figure out what happened in my 20s...
ReplyDeleteDon't worry about it. This government is trillions upon trillions in debt with no ability to ever pay that debt. Interest payments on that debt now exceed a trillion dollars. Our job is to help it default on its debt as soon as possible, so the real work of scaling this bloated bureaucratic nightmare down to its core constitutional functions can begin. I'm writing all the democratic congresscriminals to demand more spending on various programs benefiting mentally-ill alphabet activists. The LGBTIRUQOMZP+/- crowd needs at least $16 trillion in new funding now, or the climate will die.
ReplyDeleteCommit economic warfare upon the state. That has been my motto for almost fifteen years.
DeleteOh. So that explains the 'need' for this-
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Now I get it.
This is what you get when your government knows you know they’re fucking you six ways to Sunday so they take measures to prevent you from ever even thinking of doing something about it.
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Their prevention never crossed my mind. Its a non-issue. I mean, they can try.
DeleteAll I can say if they’re listening to my phone calls, they must have boring lives of their own.
ReplyDeleteI have never been in contact with a criminal at any time in my life.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if they have my phone records?
Heltau
All this at their fingertips and they still don't know who's cocaine was left in White House. Wtf.
ReplyDeleteit's like North Korea, but with freedom sprinkles, unicorns, and green tea enemas!
ReplyDelete"AT&T's voluntary, albeit revenue-generating, assistance." Those are key words from the post. At least six million in funding from the government and who knows how much went back to line politicians pockets.
ReplyDeleteWonder if I can talk them into giving me a list of actual addresses where the fake Medicare and burial insurance call centers keep bugging me from Delhi and Kolkata, then.
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