And if they are digital, how has there not been any sort of hack? ‘Anonymous’ or foreign actors would surely love to have a chance to air the dirty laundry, no?
Probably to keep them legitimate. If leaked nobody would believe them.
Make them release it officially and people might take it seriously.
Officially released by the current administration? I can’t think of any other avenue that would make the release less legitimate
They already faked a suicide for a dude in prison to keep that info from getting out, that’s a hell of a warning.
Worse, Snowden did leak an absurd amount of gov details and documents and info and it did nothing to stop what’s happening. People barely acknowledged it.
Maybe someone would martyr themselves. But doing it for nothing? Not appealing.
It did actually have some effect, though. The GDPR and countries reducing their dependence on the USA’s intelligence services are part of it.
I’m also reminded of the Panama Papers, which did make some bankers in Iceland step down.
And yet governments are trying to buy palantir access. There should be more opposition.
Exactly. Palantir is American terrorism and infiltration.
Yeah, the government’s big shift from “spy on our citizens” to “create a private corporation and pay them to spy on our citizens” was largely driven by public scrutiny. Governments realized that people were watching what they did online. And rather than stop encroaching on peoples’ privacy, the various governments simply shifted towards hiring private contractors to do it for them.
A giant “Spy Agency To Definitely Spy On All Of Our Own Citizens: Fifty Bajillion Dollars” line item on the government budget looks bad when lawmakers go to vote on it. But that same fifty bajillion dollars allocated to “Private Government Contractor 19452046” looks a lot better on paper.
