A newly declassified report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence reveals the federal government is buying troves of data about Americans.

"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."

I thought that this was timely and relevant. Does federalization/decentralization solve these issues as we go into Web3? I’m newer to these ideas.

  • j4k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I imagine this goes way deeper. Like google data collection is practically a US gov branch, but the gov is not just passive. I bet Intel ME (wiki) and AMD’s PSP (wiki) are both built with several back doors. I think it is also the reason there are no modern open hardware network chips since this same era that x86 went to these second generation management systems and total black box proprietary microcode for processor initialization. I doubt ARM is any better, but I am probably cynical too. Hopefully RiscV can create a new era of open hardware to dislodge x86/ARM, and someone will displace Broadcom/Qualcomm/Realtek.

    The US since 9/11 has been very nearly the train wreck the event intended. Lost freedom, lost wars, lost middle class, school kids in a constant war zone, religious zealotry, political division, u/spez; sounds a lot like the goals of the attackers as I remember the news reporting.