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The CIA Is Investing in Firms That Mine Your Tweets and Instagram Photos
Privacy advocates, however, have expressed concern about these sorts of automated judgments.
When you have private companies deciding which algorithms get you a so-called threat score, or make you a person of interest, theres obviously room for targeting people based on viewpoints or even unlawfully targeting people based on race or religion, said Lee Rowland, a senior staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union.
She added that there is a dangerous trend toward government relying on tech companies to build massive dossiers on people using nothing but constitutionally protected speech.
When you have private companies deciding which algorithms get you a so-called threat score, or make you a person of interest, theres obviously room for targeting people based on viewpoints or even unlawfully targeting people based on race or religion, said Lee Rowland, a senior staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union.
She added that there is a dangerous trend toward government relying on tech companies to build massive dossiers on people using nothing but constitutionally protected speech.
https://theintercept.com/2016/04/14/in-undisclosed-cia-investments-social-media-mining-looms-large/
This is a very ominous piece. By the time the next presidential election rolls around organizing online might be very difficult.
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The CIA Is Investing in Firms That Mine Your Tweets and Instagram Photos (Original Post)
noretreatnosurrender
Apr 2016
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Glassunion
(10,201 posts)1. So the CIA knows that I think trump is a walking piece of flaming shit
that should be doused with Thor's hammer then fed into a wood chipper bleeding out into a pool of acid, and fired into the sun?
That and Justin Bieber is the worst thing from Canada since Mr. Tamborine Man as performed by Will Shatner.
xocet
(3,871 posts)2. +100 for a highly creative use of Mjölnir....
ohnoyoudidnt
(1,858 posts)3. And now they know I agree with you.
GOLGO 13
(1,681 posts)4. Watch the Will Shatner insults
Your on super Romulan thin ice, sir!
Glassunion
(10,201 posts)5. I love Shatner
A lot!
But that sucked.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,325 posts)6. Me too, except for the mysterious circumstances of his wife's death.
But other than that, a great human being.
ky_dem
(86 posts)7. I'm growing more and more curious
whether the algorithms used by law enforcement agencies will be subject to freedom of information requests, granted if the FBI and CIA are contracting it will probably fall under trade secrets