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Activist and hacktivist collective Anonymous has launched an online awareness-raising operation opposing pending controversial US information-sharing bills. Critics from across the political spectrum, including libertarian-minded technologist Robert Graham, argue that the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act sacrifices …
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In a sense, it doesn't matter what the law says or what passes; because the spooks are going to keep doing it anyway. They have to, because every other country's spooks are giving it some; and not to stay in the game would be suicide.
What's needed is some oversight and controls against misuse of the data for petty reasons and against their own population (not treating allies like the enemy would also be nice, America). Military intelligence, fine. Trying to weed out terrorists, excellent (although terrorist should be strictly defined...people who throw bombs about in the name of Allah or the FSM or whatever are terorists; people who fail to bag their dog's crap definitely aren't. I've made a start for you spook outfits, carry on. I suggest that someone who is prepared and equipped to cause indiscriminate corporeal harm would be a terrorist).
Oh and spook agencies - stop bleating on about encryption being a terrorist's tool. You ain't ever going to get your way on that and it's getting boring to listen to.
You -all of you, not just the US- have thoroughly blown the public's trust. To redeem yourselves from the effects of a bunch of power hungry arseholes who thought that they would never be caught out is going to take some considerable time. You did it to yourselves, so stop whining. Some areas you could look at include:
► Define specific areas where it is rght, just and good for you to be sucking up information
► Add controls to stop information being misused.
► Be fucking accountable.
► (For the US only): Try and stop shooting unarmed black people. Sooner or later they're going to start shooting back.