The article discusses a new initiative by the U.S. Intelligence Community to create a centralized online platform, the "Intelligence Community Data Consortium," for federal agencies to purchase data. This system aims to streamline data acquisition for 18 different intelligence agencies, including the NSA and CIA, allowing them to access sensitive information quickly. Critics, including lawyer Emile Ayoub of the Brennan Center, express concerns that this could circumvent established privacy protections and facilitate access to Americans' private data without adequate oversight.
In practice, the Data Consortium would provide a one-stop shop for agencies to cheaply purchase access to vast amounts of Americans' sensitive information from commercial entities, sidestepping constitutional and statutory privacy protections.
Data privacy issues still get shoulder shrugs from most people. But it's getting easier to see why access to such data can grow problematic when certain individuals are out to get others who have done nothing wrong.
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