Should the EU be more sovereign? Revealed: US Military Bought Mass Monitoring Tool That Includes Internet Browsing, Email Data
Should the EU be more sovereign? Revealed: US Military Bought Mass Monitoring Tool That Includes Internet Browsing, Email Data
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I wouldn’t mind the EU becoming the 52nd state
>The material reveals the sale and use of a previously little known monitoring capability that is powered by data purchases from the private sector. The tool, called Augury, is developed by cybersecurity firm Team Cymru and bundles a massive amount of data together and makes it available to government and corporate customers as a paid service.
Is this legal?
>“The network data includes data from over 550 collection points worldwide, to include collection points in Europe, the Middle East, North/South America, Africa and Asia, and is updated with at least 100 billion new records each day,” a description of the Augury platform in a U.S. government procurement record reviewed by Motherboard reads. It adds that Augury provides access to “petabytes” of current and historical data.
>Motherboard has found that the U.S. Navy, Army, Cyber Command, and the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency have collectively paid at least $3.5 million to access Augury. This allows the military to track internet usage using an incredible amount of sensitive information. Motherboard has extensively covered how U.S. agencies gain access to data that in some cases would require a warrant or other legal mechanism by simply purchasing data that is available commercially from private companies. Most often, the sales center around location data harvested from smartphones. The Augury purchases show that this approach of buying access to data also extends to information more directly related to internet usage.
You gotta spy your ~~allies~~ vassals
US is the reason why Europe did not collapse strategically during the Cold War, and is the reason why Russia is being kept in check today. Idk how many downvotes I’m going to amass for this, but the moment US steps out from Europe, EU collapses under Moscow’s anti-EU agencies spread all over the place, and in a while the continent is, again, ravaged by war.