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> If you create data anywhere, assume some govt will eventually get a copy I have a hunch that we've been giving these agencies too much credit this whole time
by testacct22 3y ago
> If you create data anywhere, assume some govt will eventually get a copy
I have a hunch that we've been giving these agencies too much credit this whole time
Every time there's an unmitigated act of terror makes me think: the intelligence community is either malicious (a crazy rabbit hole to go down) or incompetent
And also there's the problem of searching, like finding a needle in an ocean
- Liquix 3y agono one is manually searching through petabytes of data. it's all ingested into ML systems which spit out inferences and predictions about individuals. repeat with enough people, combine datasets, now you're generating increasingly accurate predictions about society at large. less privacy = more data = better training = more accurate predictions.
- AndrewKemendo 3y agoOr It’s an impossible problem You can’t win 100% of the time, so you’ll miss some and people will be rightfully mad you missed You also can’t talk about most wins or - more frequently - events prevented/mitigated Finally, it only takes a few bad actors in the govt to destroy long term public trust and we’ve had decades of lackluster at best leadership So add all that up and there’s never going to be positive news about the IC