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NSA, persoonsgegevens en u

Maandag, 28 April, 2008

nsa.jpgDoor Mitch Ratcliffe | Hier is een eenvoudige regel om totalitarian regel in om het even welke natie te verhinderen: Bouw dicht niet de systemen voor het dagelijkse leven van controlerende mensen in de eerste plaats op, en u zult niet van totalitarian heersers in gevaar zijn die die systemen met behulp van om individuele keus te overweldigen. Wall Street Journal vandaag heeft een lang stuk op de diverse manieren die het Agentschap van de Nationale Veiligheid heeft uitgebreid zijn capaciteit om individuen binnen de Verenigde Staten zonder een waarborg te controleren. Het is gelezen, of u denkt wij dit soort of niet politieagentschap nodig hebben.

Zet oorspronkelijk door President Truman om op signalenintelligentie (aftappen, radio die enzovoort controleert) te vergemakkelijken die tegen buitenlandse overheden wordt geleid, kan NSA vandaag tot uw persoonlijke mededelingen zonder enige behoefte toegang krijgen om toestemming te vragen, die omvat:

E-mail, zoals aan en van-adressen, onderworpen verzonden lijninhoud en tijd;

Websites bezocht en de inhoud van uw onderzoeken;

Het draadloze roepen, van uw plaats en dat van de persoon die de vraag ontvangt aan de lengte en rekeningsaantallen;

Het getelegrafeerde telefoon roepen, met inbegrip van rekeningsaantallen en lengte van vraag (er zijn jarenlang geruchten geweest dat de eerste minuut van vraag voor sleutelwoorden wordt gecontroleerd, maar dit wordt niet bevestigd, omdat, als nationale veiligheidskwestie, de burgers niet verondersteld om zijn het te weten);

Financiële transacties, zoals uw creditcardgebruik, draadoverdrachten en stortingen en terugtrekking voor uw het controleren en besparingenrekeningen,

evenals de inhoud van om het even welke transactie die door een computer wordt geregistreerd dat NSA voor zijn analyses van de patroonerkenning noodzakelijk acht.

NSA heeft altijd aangedrongen het scrupuleus binnen de grenzen van de wetten werkt die zijn gedrag regeren, maar het heeft, als alle menselijke instellingen, had tijdspannes in zijn oordeel. Bijvoorbeeld, tijdens het jaar onmiddellijk na 9/11, Probeerde NSA om een Totaal voorlichtingsnetwerk van het van de Informatie op te zetten, wat alle gegevens over mensen en hun transacties en mededeling voor analyse moest grijpen, maar het Congres belemmerde verder het besteden aan het programma over burgerlijke vrijhedenzorgen. Niettemin, het programma is in stukken verdergegaan dat, in totaal, voegt tot het zelfde niveau van toegang tot binnenlandse burgerlijke mededelingen toe, als Dagboek het artikel maakt duidelijk.

De technologen moeten zich bewust zijn van dit netto ooit-zichuitbreidt that can trap and hold their customers’ and colleagues’ data, because it is reshaping the potential for public discourse about what our country and government can and should do, as well as how we may act as individuals.

Sure, there will be commenters on this posting who write that “it’s nothing to worry about if you don’t do anything wrong.” And that may be true, but the problem with these institutions is that they will not go away when the threat of terrorism passes. Maybe you think that threat will never end, but then we must ask whether this approach to fighting terrorism has any merit. Let’s assume, for argument’s sake, that terrorism can be handled within the scope of normal police activity, as it has been since before 9/11.

Human sources of information are known to be far more valuable than data-driven analysis of massive amounts of transactional data. Yes, after an agency has a human source those data analyses can be very useful in assembling a case, though it is perfectly reasonable and very easy to get a warrant from a judge for that information based on the human source—there is no need for unbridled warrantless monitoring of the people of the United States.

You see, if we assume that most of us are law-abiding citizens, the need for unrestricted monitoring is obliterated by the logic of focused pursuit of known and suspected bad guys based on established legal procedures. Warrants before monitoring is more efficient, faster and not just an ACLU talking point, but the very foundation of limited government.

If we allow our nation to be shot through with monitoring systems, we’ll be monitored forever, because people and institutions that have been granted power seldom give it up, as we all know. They even fall prey to the temptation to abuse those powers. In Cincinnati back in the late 1980s, the power to use wiretaps overcame the good judgment of police officers who used them to listen to their spouses’ conversations and to conduct surveillance on businesses. During the 1970s, the abuse of national surveillance powers was so rife that Congress established the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and a system of courts for providing law enforcement legal access to communications with a warrant. Today, the FISA system is under attack by those who believe we need unrestricted surveillance of Americans, as well as of potential terrorists abroad.

The trajectory of the NSA’s existence is the proof we face a serious threat to our ability to live and decide for ourselves. An agency originally chartered to monitor the communications of “foreign governments” is now monitoring individual American citizens. It is a classic case of over-reaching by government.

The NSA has worked around the decision of Congress to build its total awareness network. It is time the people made fighting that unrestricted access to their lives a campaign issue. If we don’t stop the vast spending on domestic surveillance today, it will bankrupt our government, morally and financially. We’ll be giving increasing power to bureaucrats to peak into our lives to ensure that we are living according to their whims, as every comprehensive system of public monitoring in history has produced in the past.

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