#bigdataandsecurityintelligence — Public Fediverse posts

Worth remembering, given even in the 2021 #bigdataandsecurityintelligence privacy nihilism was still being discussed as a possibly serious stance

2017:

> "There is a Boraitha: R Mair used to say: In three things one is different from his neighbor--in voice, in face, and in mind: in voice and in face, because of adultery; and in mind, because of robbers. (I.e. if one were to know the mind of his neighbor, he would know of all his treasures and mysteries and would rob him of them.)"

the Talmud (p 1749)

> "They trust me — dumb fucks,"

Mark Zuckerberg

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> greg weston, csec used airport wi fi to track canadian travellers; edward snowden documents, cbc, news 31 jan 2014 http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/csec-used-airport-wi-fi-to-track-canadian-travellers-edward-snowden-documetns-1.2517881

" Since publication of the article #CSE no longer uses the acronym #CSEC "

#bigdataandsecurityintelligence

bah
someone beat me to it: there's someone else out there who read / reviewed #bigdataandsecurityintelligence before I did

a couple more suggestions from #bigdataandsecurityintelligence
* To split 'deep metadata' from 'shallow metadata' - roughly, deeply invasive contextualized intelligence from mere envelope information.
* "treat statements about metadata, especially by government officials who repeat the conventional definition of metadata [ie shallow] with skepticism and avoid reiterating them"
* Put something in the criminal code to actually deal with deep metadata, similar to how we have a privacy law at all

@cy they aren't though. That's one of the takeaways of #bigdataandsecurityintelligence: they have *some* activity that is ratified by law, but most of what they do is no different than CIA/NSA/etc - totally illegal

#ESCHELON was targeted at terrorists/the soviet union, but also originally journalists, and whistleblowers.

#waronwhistleblowers #bigdataandsecurityintelligence

4 kinds of transparency are suggested for #CSEC by #bigdataandsecurityintelligence

:
* legal transparency
- less secret law, bring it into the court records

* statistical transparency
- 'birds eye view' statistics, similar to google's surveillance reports , but at the national level

* narrative transparency
- actually informing the government, via lawers, in a public way, what exactly CSEC is doing.

* proportional transparency- empowering review bodies like nsira with a mandate to make sure that surveillance is proportional

ie no 'spy on literally everyone in the world to catch a pothed in burnaby' bullshit

ie
the canadian public went from being 80% status quo to actively stopping a foregone conclusion ratcheting of the secret police's powers. #bigdataandsecurityintelligence

guess I shouldn't feel too bad about being blown off by the sps. . . https://twitter.com/jeffcliff1/status/764656766697123840

"Here's a statement of CSIS: "we will neither confirm nor deny and we will not tell you whether in our opinion we should get a warrant if we were ever to use one" I'm sorry , we will not tell you parliamentarians whether CSIS would get a warrant for the use of [stingrays]? What is that? That is a shocking level of disdain for the demoratic process"

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it only took 135,000 people clicktivism with #openmedia to stop the majority conservative harper government from pushing vic toews' mass surveillance bill forward

granted we had a free press, and non-government compromised media back then, including but not limited to twitter

still ...that's not *that* many #bigdataandsecurityintelligence

"we have demonstrated different ways in which police adoption and use of big data and data analytics can be plagued with 'black data' which results from 'data bias, data error, and the incompleteness of data systems'" #bigdataandsecurityintelligence #blackdata

> the costs associated with purchasing an open-source analytic software license - that wouldn't leave a trace - were very high

uh

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"Bill C-65 tries to restore a more traditional pattern, albeit in the circumstances where a classical judicial warrant model would prove unworkable"

The only reason it's unworkable is that the government thinks it's OK to engage in mass surveillance.

ie it's not unworkable. What's "workable" is defunding CSIS/CSEC, and reinstating canadian privacy #bigdataandsecurityintelligence

> A spy service fishing in more ocean is, in some eyes, the stuff of Big Brother and nightmares. On the other hand, an intelligence servic that cannot have access to the ocean when performing its functions is also not likely to perform its functions very well.

That's the point. We don't *want* it performing "its functions" (ie undermining of democracy, surveillance on the public, blackmail of public figures) #bigdataandsecurityintelligence

dozed off while reading #bigdataandsecurityintelligence

it is actually a tough slog in places, but this is *the* up to date info so it's worth it

2014: "In other words,Total Information Awareness dates back to at least 1965-1971 with New Haven/New York's 'Total Information System', Although the results of the project were modernizing that specific area, it also showed how complex human societies were, how rich human relations were., and how much technology at the time was not ready for such cataloging of human interactions and property relations."

I, #bigdataandsecurityintelligence, and probably a lot of people who read the official history of the NSA dragnet masssurveillance have a very salient TIA to point to, but in fact TIA was predated by an earlier system, which was shut down in failure in 1971. It was shut down because human relations turned out to be much, much richer, human behaviour much potentially deeper than the watchers and their simplistic models could predict.

Deep learning is getting better at this sort of thing, but we can remain beneath their grasp in principle. All we need to do is to continue being human. https://www.facebook.com/jeff.cliff/posts/10152644774857909

It's still not mentioned on wikipedia - this chapter of US history seems to be silent to this generation.

#bigdataandsecurityintelligence all I can think is

If we can be sure of anything in the 2100s it's that we're going to invent a *lot* of interesting, and disturbing types of blackmail we can't even imagine yet. I'm not sure how much Stéphane Leman-Langlois gets this.

Also I suspect he would benefit by reading #EverybodyLies - he seems to understand the first order problems of #bigdata, but #everybodylies contains a cursory overview of ways of dealing with those big problems at the first order. There's no doubt second order problems beyond that (including ones justifiable by bayesian reasoning similar to Leman-Langlois's) but he doesn't seem to present this to the reader, at least. #BigDataAndSecurityIntelligence

As shown by a recent Federal Appeal Court case (X(Re), 2013 FC 1275), Canadian intelligence agencies have subcontracted the surveillance of Canadians to foreign Five Eyes partners, this without informing the court when obtaining the original interception warrants. The law has since been amended to *allow* the practice, which should make watching suspects around the globe much easier. Hundreds of Canadians will be travelling with secret "terrorism" labels affixed to their passports, the consequences of which are well illustrated by the cases of Canadians Maher Arar, Abdullah Almaki, Muayyed Nureddin, and Ahmed Abou-Elmaati. Each was the victim of torture abroad due to misidentification by Canadian police as a terror suspect." #BigDataAndSecurityIntelligence