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FBI drones are the biggest threat to privacy in America today
Posted by: VoteStrike ()
Date: April 27, 2017 10:50AM

I am really getting sick of this crap the federal alphabet agencies are pulling and that more people don't understand what damage they are doing to the whole damn country.

From the federal-bureau-of-(deliberate)-ineptitude dept

The FBI's assessment of its drones' impact on the privacy of Americans has never been made public. It's been nearly a decade since it first deployed drones, and the agency has yet to provide anything on the subject. FOIA requests (there are several out there) have been greeted with nothing -- every single page withheld under the government's go-to exception, b(5).

Now, it's telling FOIA clearinghouse that its obfuscatory efforts have buried the documents so deep even the FBI doesn't know where its Privacy Impact Assessment is.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation refused to release its plans to tackle privacy risks posed by drone surveillance. Now the agency claims it can’t track them down at all. So does the one Justice Department office responsible for making sure such reports get filed in the first place.

The FBI's continued secrecy runs contrary to both the FOIA and its own obligations to the general public in terms of its surveillance programs' impact on the American public.

The Justice Department confirmed that neither the FBI nor OPCL had been able to find anything despite “an adequate, reasonable search for such records.”

So… did the FBI toss the troublesome document into the nearest shredder (as if it isn't stored online somewhere within its internal network)? Or is it simply uninterested with fulfilling the minimal requirements of its accountability to the public? The latter appears to be the likeliest answer.

The White House has set vague privacy policies for government agencies using drones. Trump issued a directive that sets limits on how unmanned aircraft may be used by federal agencies to gather information on people. The White House said government drones must be used lawfully and “consistent with the Constitution,” and gathering information on American citizens may only be done for an “authorized purpose.”

That doesn’t really restrict what law enforcement can use drones for, or even require a search warrant from a judge.

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Re: FBI drones are the biggest threat to privacy in America today
Posted by: BEH ()
Date: April 27, 2017 10:52AM

Poor VoteStrike is seeing little buzzing airplanes in his sleep.

Paranoia will destroy ya

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