I just finished my testimony to the Senate on how to handle Big Data -- thanks to the Senators and the Senate teams (Mark and Avery in particular) for working with me on this, despite the fact that my ideas were waaay outside of the mainstream.
The good news is that I was able to insert two NEW ideas into the mix:

1) Data ownership. You own your data, you should be in control of it.

2) Digital rights. Rights that protect us against a corporate-run surveillance state (there are none right now).
The bad news is: these ideas were so NEW (outside the mainstream), it's going to take some time for people to get their heads around them.

We also need a better spokesmodel than me for this (I'm OK, but there are MANY people much better at this than I am).
Here's something that should be an easy win: the one big thing missing from the data marketplace is a firm (broker, bank, etc.) working on our behalf (and millions like us) to aggregate our data, max our returns, enforce our privacy concerns, etc.

There's nobody in our corner.
If we had #dataownership and there were firms in this hearing today that were actively operating as advisors, advocates, and managers of our data... we would have been talking about instances of improvement rather than repeated instances of abuse.
Here's what I supplied as written testimony (open access):

patreon.com/posts/56394754

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17 Aug
US forces being surrounded in Kabul is a military blunder but it isn't discussed.

We fought a war over WMDs that didn't exist, but nobody was held accountable.

95% of PPE production was outsourced to China (etc.), so we didn't have enough when COVID arrived. Crickets.

cont.
The banks knew, for years, that CDOs were risky and toxic but they sold them anyway to pension funds, making the financial crash possible. Nada.

I could go on and on.

Nothing real is being discussed. Nothing is being corrected. Nobody is held accountable (just the opposite).
The pervasiveness of this goes beyond simply attributing it to corruption or collusion.

It goes deeper.

It's more fundamental.
Read 4 tweets
14 Aug
What we're seeing in Afghanistan is a great demonstration of how to switch realms of warfare.

From guerrilla warfare fought in the moral realm (and given the rapid collapse of the ANA, a complete success) to maneuver warfare fought in the psychological realm (more success).
Note: Why is maneuver warfare in the psychological realm?

Maneuver warfare uses rapid movements that maximize ambiguity, deception, and novelty in order to disorient, disrupt, and overload an opponent's decision-making.
That's exactly what we are seeing.

This was two days ago:

cbsnews.com/news/afghanist…
Read 6 tweets
13 Aug
China's counter-insurgency against the Uighurs:

1) Declare Islam a mental disease

"they were forced to renounce Islam, criticize their own Islamic beliefs and those of fellow inmates, and recite Communist Party propaganda songs for hours each day."

theatlantic.com/international/…
2) Send a million people (mostly men) to re-education camps

nytimes.com/2018/08/10/wor…
3) Send a million ethnically correct party members to live in their homes (police their behaviors under threat of camps)
Read 6 tweets
14 Jul
"They enable extremely centralized command and control (as in: operations can be micro-manged down to the decision to kill). In sum, a small number of people in Washington DC can control and operate a vast 24x7 killing field for very few $$."

globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrill…
'a more interesting idea is how it gets applied to US internal security when... the current system loses much of its remaining legitimacy'
In that scenario:

"even a mildly radical post to a blog, Facebook, or Twitter (particularly if it could lead to a flashmob or an occupy style protest) would invite inclusion on the drone assassination list"
Read 4 tweets
14 Jul
"U.S. Capitol Police will start using Army surveillance equipment to monitor Americans as part of a larger effort to improve security and turn the force into “an intelligence-based protective agency"

americanmilitarynews.com/2021/07/capito…
"Last week, the USCP took possession of eight Persistent Surveillance Systems Ground – Medium (PSSG-M) units"
Sounds like the beginnings of a Praetorian Guard:

"During the era of the Roman Republic, the Praetorians served as a small escort force (and intelligence agency) for high-ranking officials such as senators... and also serving as bodyguards for high-ranking officers"
Read 4 tweets
17 Jun
White House Domestic Terrorism strategy document is out.

It's a Patriot Act on steroids.

In short, it reorients Homeland Security to focus on domestic threats/unrest.

/continued

whitehouse.gov/wp-content/upl…
It calls for new spending on:

Expansion of domestic data collection/analysis

Consolidation/sharing of intelligence on groups/individuals of interest

Discovery of transnational connections (an NSA trigger)

/cont.
Government-wide training on identifying and dealing with domestic threats

Expanded online surveillance and censorship

Expanded legal resources

Legislative reforms - new criminal laws

Screening and vetting of all DoD, Homeland Security, and Law Enforcement employees
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