“Nightmare Scenario”: US Government Has Been Secretly Stockpiling Dirt On Americans Via Data Brokers, by Tyler Durden

The government has outsourced Constitutional violations. From Tyler Durden at zerohedge.com:

The US Government has been purchasing troves of information on American citizens from 3rd party data providers, according to Wired, which cites privacy advocates who say this constitutes a “nightmare scenario.”

The United States government has been secretly amassing a “large amount” of “sensitive and intimate information” on its own citizens, a group of senior advisers informed Avril Haines, the director of national intelligence, more than a year ago. 

The size and scope of the government effort to accumulate data revealing the minute details of Americans’ lives are described soberly and at length by the director’s own panel of experts in a newly declassified report. Haines had first tasked her advisers in late 2021 with untangling a web of secretive business arrangements between commercial data brokers and US intelligence community members. -Wired

“This report reveals what we feared most,” according to attorney Sean Vitka of the Demand Progress nonprofit. “Intelligence agencies are flouting the law and buying information about Americans that Congress and the Supreme Court have made clear the government should not have.”

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2 responses to ““Nightmare Scenario”: US Government Has Been Secretly Stockpiling Dirt On Americans Via Data Brokers, by Tyler Durden

  1. Chiquita Good Banana's avatar Chiquita Good Banana

    This will be busted out when the CCP/CPUSA Social Credit score goes live.
    I don’t feel sorry for people who posted up everything online.
    Loves me some first amendment but you do have to have the German Glance from WWII of looking over your shoulder.
    At least the tweets aren’t mean and no vjays got grabbed.

  2. “….flouting the law”.

    A law not enforced is no longer a law.

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