President Obama’s speech on surveillance has been criticized for being heavy on rhetoric and light on true reforms, essentially opting to keep the current system fundamentally intact with some additional oversight. Frank Pasquale examines one of the more concerning, but largely ignored abuses of the gathered intelligence—the sharing of national security data across bureaus for law enforcement purposes. He argues that before better surveillance policy can be developed there must be a commission to review the politicization of intelligence gathering.
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