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Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police

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Re: Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police

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Post by futuraperdita »

QuercusMax wrote: post #8
aliasxneo wrote: post #5

> For instance, the Church of Scientology, U.S. Navy, and the Washington State Military Department told Prism that they are no longer working with the network. That first one took me by surprise. What a random hodgepodge of organizations.

Scientologists being involved with intelligence agencies doesn't surprise me even a bit, it makes a lot of sense as a CIA cutout.

Infiltration of government institutions has been doctrine for the group since the 1970s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Snow_White

Re: Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police

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Post by coliveira »

aliasxneo wrote: post #5

> For instance, the Church of Scientology, U.S. Navy, and the Washington State Military Department told Prism that they are no longer working with the network. That first one took me by surprise. What a random hodgepodge of organizations.

Scientology is essentially a scheme to get private/incriminating information from very important people. Why the surprise?

Re: Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police

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Post by Shalomboy »

shermantanktop wrote: post #9

Looks like a nothingburger? It's unfunded. An email describes a protest without giving a framing that the site would prefer. Then it turns out that nobody knows what it does, but it might do something bad. I'm all for transparency and accountability but my assumption is that the bad things being done by LEO and intelligence are far worse than this.

My take away from the article was that this likely isn't the only public-private intelligence network propped up by local PDs; that was pretty alarming to me.

Re: Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police

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Post by erxam »

bigbuppo wrote: post #6

So what you're saying is that everyone that works at Amazon and Facebook are now at grave risk because the bad guys now think they're informants?

You've got the good guys and the bad guys mixed up. No Meta "engineer" knows what morals or ethics even are, much less actually apply them in real life.

Re: Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police

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Post by LoganDark »

shermantanktop wrote: post #9

Looks like a nothingburger? It's unfunded. An email describes a protest without giving a framing that the site would prefer. Then it turns out that nobody knows what it does, but it might do something bad. I'm all for transparency and accountability but my assumption is that the bad things being done by LEO and intelligence are far worse than this.

Do you mean unfounded?

Re: Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police

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Post by erxam »

Shalomboy wrote: post #14
shermantanktop wrote: post #9

Looks like a nothingburger? It's unfunded. An email describes a protest without giving a framing that the site would prefer. Then it turns out that nobody knows what it does, but it might do something bad. I'm all for transparency and accountability but my assumption is that the bad things being done by LEO and intelligence are far worse than this.

My take away from the article was that this likely isn't the only public-private intelligence network propped up by local PDs; that was pretty alarming to me.

I think this is a good point: this is what they're letting us on.

Re: Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police

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Post by acidhousemcnab »

shermantanktop wrote: post #9

Looks like a nothingburger? It's unfunded. An email describes a protest without giving a framing that the site would prefer. Then it turns out that nobody knows what it does, but it might do something bad. I'm all for transparency and accountability but my assumption is that the bad things being done by LEO and intelligence are far worse than this.

There were a lot of articles describing Snowdon / Manning and Wikileaks releases as exactly "nothing burgers", in those journals of note that people read to tell them what to think about matters - but I'm not sure what a "nothing burger" means - pulverised cattle flesh flattened into an oval, that doesn't exist?
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