Thanks Dick. I think you and Greg have made the point that intelligence services are generally not so quick to share their data with the dog catcher. However, if you are going to offer offline tutorials, may we beg a digest of those tutorials for the list? It is hard to get good information on these actual practices. Some of the legislative and policy initiatives in western democracies to share data between investigative agencies, not to mention further investment in big data techniques for profiling without disclosure (not the technical term but I am sure you know what I am referring to) would lead one to conclude that such data sharing is well in hand.
Totally
agree, Stephanie. There has to be oversight of these practices; it simply is
not good enough for intelligence agencies to be Judge, Jury, Executioner, and
Court Stenographer — and expect to be trusted, blindly, that they behave in an ethical and appropriate manner.
I would
like to hear more from those in the intelligence communities around their
internal ethical controls, what oversight governs what data is collected and
how it is used, and how, say, WHOIS records are being blended together with other
data sources to identify someone.
- Ayden