Office of the Director of National Intelligence: Data Mining 2012
Office of the Director of National Intelligence = ODNI
To cut directly to the chase:
II. ODNI Data Mining Activities
The ODNI did not engage in any activities to use or develop data mining functionality during the reporting period.
My source, KDNuggets, provides the legal loophole analysis.
Who watches the watchers?
Looks like that it’s going to be you and me.
Every citizen who recognizes a government employee, agent, official, tweet the name you know them by with your location.
Just that.
If enough of us do that, patterns will begin to appear in the data stream.
If enough patterns appear in the data stream, the identities of government employees, agents, officials, will slowly become known.
Transparency won’t happen overnight or easily.
But if you are waiting for the watchers to watch themselves, you are going to be severely disappointed.