{"id":47307,"date":"2021-02-17T13:03:47","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T18:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=47307"},"modified":"2021-02-17T13:07:28","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T18:07:28","slug":"foreign-policy-research-institute-the-intelligence-community-and-open-source-information-in-the-digital-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=47307","title":{"rendered":"Foreign Policy Research Institute: The Intelligence Community and Open-Source Information in the Digital Age"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Foreign Policy Research Institute: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/article\/2021\/02\/the-intelligence-community-and-open-source-information-in-the-digital-age\/\">The Intelligence Community and Open-Source Information in the Digital Age<\/a> by George W. Croner:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>On January 22, 2021, the New York Times reported that the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) was acquiring commercially available databases from vendors containing U.S. person location data generated by smartphone applications, and the DIA was periodically using that data to track U.S. person device locations (specifically, the Times reported, \u201cDefense Intelligence Agency analysts have searched for the movements of Americans within a commercial database in five investigations over the past two and a half years\u201d). The Times article included a link to a DIA memorandum prepared in response to inquiries about the practice received from the office of Senator Ron Wyden. Senator Wyden subsequently raised the issue during the confirmation hearing of Avril Haines for the position of Director of National Intelligence (DNI) asking Haines about \u201cabuses\u201d of commercially available location data. In a statement released by Wyden\u2019s legislative office in connection with Haines\u2019 confirmation process, he describes the DIA practice discussed in the Times article as \u201cunacceptable\u201d and as an intrusion on constitutional privacy rights, saying, \u201cThe Fourth Amendment is not for sale.\u201d<\/p><p>Other elements of the Intelligence Community also acquire databases from commercial vendors that contain anonymized mobile location information generated by smartphone applications. \u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>As far as  technological surveillance is concerned, the Fourth Amendment actually is for sale.  We made that Faustian bargain many years ago trading convenience for privacy.  So be it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign Policy Research Institute: The Intelligence Community and Open-Source Information in the Digital Age by George W. Croner:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47307"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47310,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47307\/revisions\/47310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}