Is Total Information Awareness making executives and analysts rich?
One intriguing question comes to mind when reading that the NSA is "worried" over what information Edward Snowden might have in his possession and might release to foreign governments. If the NSA's private contractor Booz Allen has such poor control over who accesses what information and when, how are Americans to know if the executives and other workers like Snowden are not using this information to enrich themselves. Is it a wild west show at Booz Allen where a 75K a year analyst can listen in on insider communication on Wall Street and invest accordingly?
In short, what controls are there over this vast information collection operation? Is it now true that the Carlyle Group has as much power as the NSA to use these tools to enrich and protect itself from any and all comers? Would that not now make them the most powerful company on Earth?
Cheers?
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