backyardfarmer

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The US Is Openly Stockpiling Dirt on All Its Citizens in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] backyardfarmer@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Really great practices I know I need to be practicing more regularly. Thanks for the reminder.

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The US Is Openly Stockpiling Dirt on All Its Citizens (www.wired.com)
 

"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.

Megathread for Reddit Blackouts and News - Week 1 in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] backyardfarmer@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

This definitely feels like the D&D OGL fiasco. That got some big news. It felt like Reddit was the primary platform for organizing that boycott. It's a shame that Reddit didn't learn any lessons from WOTC.