Thomas Drake interviewed at Web 2.0 Summit 2011
summary
Claims that NSA spent billions on Trailblazer and got only PowerPoint slides while an internal $3 million ThinThread skunkworks solved the big-data problem but was killed as a corporate threat; testimony shows oversight mechanisms and the 1998 Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act fail in practice; argument that mass data collection now makes privacy erosion systemic and that a secret national security apparatus expands unchecked, raising real risks of surveillance abuse.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Intro
- 3:03Top Secret America
- 4:12Systems of Accountability
- 4:57Whistleblower Protection
- 6:06Data Privacy
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