On: Prison time, hefty fines for data privacy violatio...

[paulsutter]

Would these rules also apply to NSA/CIA misuse of surveillance?

[gingerbread-man → paulsutter]

There have been a handful of prosecutions (and many hundreds of firings) for misuse of the FBI's NCIC database by law enforcement officials. For instance, ex-NYPD Sergeant Joseph Dwyer was convicted of conspiracy in federal court in 2016 for selling information from NCIC to private defense investigators.

Personally, I believe this kind of breach-of-trust should be prosecuted much more vigorously. But besides the fear of embarrassment, I suspect federal agencies are unwilling to compromise intelligence methods to prosecute misbehavior.

[jjoonathan → gingerbread-man]

Of course, but it shouldn't be up to them.

[syshum → gingerbread-man]

The key here is Misuse under the FBI's guidelines which are no where near as strict as they should be under a properly enforced 4th amendment, most of what the FBI collects in the first place should be unconstitutional for them to have if we had a properly enforced constitution, unfortunately we do not.

[bdcravens → paulsutter]

"...grant the Federal Trade Commission authority to write privacy regulations."

I presume the FTC doesn't have authority over the NSA/CIA, so no.

[fjsolwmv → paulsutter]

No. The government is sovereign; no one can prosecute the government. Only individual scapegoats can be prosecuted.

[dragonwriter → paulsutter]

Those are already criminal, just rarely prosecuted even when known.

[mtgx → dragonwriter]

But the higherups also refuse to call them abuses or crimes most of the time.

[345218435 → paulsutter]

i love how you packaged your sarcasm and irony in such an innocent-looking question.