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The NSA is apparently working towards building its own transparency reports in a similar manner to how the Internet companies do.
According to a statement made by Rick Ledgett, NSA deputy director, during the TED Conference in Vancouver, the intelligence agency wants to be more forthcoming with the public.
The vulnerabilities we find, the overwhelming majority we disclose to the people who are responsible for manufacturing or developing those products. Were actually working on a proposal right now to be transparent and to publish transparency reports in the same way the Internet companies do, said Ledgett.
He didnt exactly give any type of detail about what exactly such a report would contain, but given just how silly the rules are for tech companies, its easy to assume that there wouldnt really be any ground-breaking information in the NSAs transparency report.
As a reminder, tech companies have been pressuring the US government for months to be allowed to reveal more information about the data requests they receive from authorities. The White House eventually agreed, but tech companies are incredulous about the way they are now allowed to give out data in batches of 1,000. Basically, if Google receives 4,002 or 4,998 secretive data requests, they must be marked in the reports as between 4,000 and 4,999, making for an extremely wide range.
Transparency reports of smaller companies look even sillier since they barely receive any FISA requests at all, but they must mention them between 0 and 999.
Furthermore, Ledgett defended the National Security Agency against claims from Edward Snowden that theres no proof that the extensive data gathering of telephony metadata has helped US security.
While Ledgett is no stranger to slamming Edward Snowden just for the sake of it, through this statement, he is ignoring two reports coming from reputable sources (on which Snowden had based his argument). One of them is the panel that Barack Obama set in place to review the NSAs activity, which concluded that there was no proof that any type of terrorist attack or any threat to the United States or its allies was stopped thanks to the phone call metadata collection program.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/The-NSA-Wants-to-Put-Together-Its-Own-Transparency-Reports-433404.shtml
A company that's tasked by definition to operate in full secrecy wants to publish its own transparency report. Joke of the century.
newfie11
(8,159 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)We all read how well that worked out for the CIA. :\
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)the CIA ? Really?
Rex
(65,616 posts)trying to help Congress decide on their future...the CIA's future, not Congresses. You know, maybe we SHOULD let the NSA do it's own oversight - think of the money we will save so the next time the Tea Baggers shutdown Congress...they will have a few bucks to help offset the billions in waste!
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)this came from as a impromptu news conference at a TED talk in response to Snowden's video talk.
The NSA senior civilians last-minute and (ironically) technical-difficulty-plagued appearance at TED was prompted by Snowdens address to the audience via telepresence robot earlier in the week.
http://recode.net/2014/03/20/nsa-director-says-agency-wants-to-release-transparency-reports-of-its-own/
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)jsr
(7,712 posts)Catherina
(35,568 posts)woo me with science
(32,139 posts)You know you are in deep, deep shit when you can't even parody it anymore.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)When the opposite side speaks much evil they two can not be trusted. In order to look inside of NSA. they would be required to pass a background check but we also know of rogue employees likes to harm in any way they can be trusted to perform oversight either.
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)I think you might want to rewrite it for clarity, grammar and spelling.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)2banon
(7,321 posts)bobthedrummer
(26,083 posts)from Afghanistan was seeded by that drug $ from The Golden Triangle-all part of the US national security community's budget(s)--let's get some transparency about that fact before the next phase of WWIII hits US.
Some of US never forgot. Some of US never gave up, nor ever will.
Affidavit of Daniel P. Sheehan
http://ncoic.com/heroin-2.htm
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)You'll be able to see the redactions under the other redactions.
Autumn
(45,120 posts)Gee.
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)bvar22
(39,909 posts)What could go wrong?
meow2u3
(24,773 posts)LumosMaxima
(585 posts)RC
(25,592 posts)woo me with science
(32,139 posts)woo me with science
(32,139 posts)fascisthunter
(29,381 posts)Sorry 'Onion', sometimes reality beats you to it!