A newly declassified report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence reveals that the federal government is buying troves of data about Americans.

"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.

  • PenguinTDEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    Not related to fediverse, just a general common sense of data collection: And website/service that does not require registration(openly viewable) or with free account(low entry barrier) you should not post any personal info there even if you say, used a vpn, cause they are free to crawl with bots. That means, don’t “ever” register for porn websites(I don’t get why people would ever do that, that’s beyond me), don’t click stuff without tab/sm container(cause the hidden auth token used by social media website can actually track you), and to some extend, if you truly want to also hide your pattern(regularly used phrase, grammar error, typo etc that can be used to build a profile out to identify you), run a local AI or spell checker that auto fix your post and rephrase sentences for you.

    It’s pretty simple really, just don’t post anything and think twice before you post something on publicly available forum/social media.