Siloes and privacy protections preventing the centralization of government information exist for an important reason: to protect us from reprisals and retribution. Consolidating all government information is a serious danger to us all.
The ODNI’s newest proposal is 8,000 steps in the wrong direction: a centralized one-stop online marketplace for intelligence agencies to buy all the data harvested off your cell phone.
You can’t scan private messages before they’re encrypted without destroying end-to-end encryption. The EU’s new “encryption roadmap” gets that wrong. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks...