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Buying You: The Government's Use of Fourth-Parties to Launder Data about 'The People'
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| Your information is for sale, and the
| government is buying it at alarming rates. The
| CIA, FBI, Justice Department, Defense
| Department, and other government agencies are
| at this very moment turning to a group of
| companies to provide them information that
| these companies can gather without the
| restrictions that bind government intelligence
| agencies. The information is gathered from
| sources that few would believe the government
| could gain unfettered access to, but which,
| under current Fourth Amendment doctrine and
| statutory protections, are completely
| accessible.
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http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1475524
The FBI was caught breaking the law last week. The government defended this illegal act.
Recent:
Yahoo, Verizon: Our Spy Capabilities Would âShockâ, âConfuseâ Consumers
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| Want to know how much phone companies and
| internet service providers charge to
| funnel your private communications or
| records to U.S. law enforcement and spy
| agencies?
|
| Thatâs the question muckraker and Indiana
| University graduate student Christopher
| Soghoian asked all agencies within the
| Department of Justice, under a Freedom of
| Information Act (FOIA) request filed a few
| months ago. But before the agencies could
| provide the data, Verizon and Yahoo
| intervened and filed an objection on
| grounds that, among other things, they
| would be ridiculed and publicly shamed
| were their surveillance price sheets made
| public.
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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/12/wiretap-prices/
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