Senator Frank Church and the NSA

Senator Frank Church and Senator Ron Wyden are heroes!

NSA spied on Frank Church, the liberal Democratic senator who warned us in 1976:

“That capability at any time could be turned around on the American people and no American would have any privacy left, such is the capability to monitor everything: telephone conversations, telegrams, it doesn’t matter. There would be no place to hide. If this government ever became a tyranny, if a dictator ever took charge in this country, the technological capacity that the intelligence community has given the government could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back, because the most careful effort to combine together in resistance to the government, no matter how privately it was done, is within the reach of the government to know. Such is the capability of this technology.

I don’t want to see this country ever go across the bridge. I know the capability that is there to make tyranny total in America, and we must see it that this agency and all agencies that possess this technology operate within the law and under proper supervision, so that we never cross over that abyss. That is the abyss from which there is no return.” -- Sen. Frank Church (D-Idaho) liberal, progressive, World War II combat veteran.

I recently read that several of the "big Data" consumer intelligence companies have designed to capture all information from various sources about consumers all the time and to manage this information for sale on a targeted individual basis.  In order to consolidate all sources of information to an individual consumer a master control number is assigned to each and every consumer.

Simply obvious!  The NSA is the leader in big data and does the same thing.  It has to.  The law of information management at the most granular relationship level is this:

The fundamental relationship in the information structure must be an exclusive one to one relationship between two objects.  In simple terms one person only has one exclusive mortal physical conscious life that they are directly and unconditionally related to.  By definition and design we all get just one.  One person cannot be related to more than one lifetime in this mortal world.  That is a fact.

We all have a number with the NSA that relates to us as a unique individual.  Us, ourselves, me and you, that is how the NSA relates a multitude of information about us to us, to me and you, in a unique manner that applies only to us and relates us to all the external connections we have in life that can be reduced to computer information.

In the scheme of having only one Master NSA number there are a multitude of identification numbers that relate to us.  Social security numbers, telephone numbers, bank account numbers, etc.  Thousand of numbers in descending order of importance and confidence that they in fact relate to us.  Beyond those numbers are constructed information identification sources that can be deduced or induced to infer a relationship of information about us to our unique Master ID with various levels of probable accuracy.

That is the way bid data works.  Everybody must have Master ID.  We do not ask for it.  It is assigned to us by some algorithm we are total unaware of that satisfies the prime requirement that it applies only to and uniquely to us and no one else.  We do not know what that number is.  Most of the other big time important identification numbers in our life we know about.  Some made up for us that we are aware of, others assigned to us that we know.

What is my Master NSA identification number that has been created and assigned only to me and only me to identify me from any other living being?

Do I have a right to know my own NSA number that is absolutely unique to me and no other living (or dead) person.  Just like a God assigned number so He can keep track of my and my score for ultimate consignment to heaven or hell!  God must be a guy.  He is too controlling and destructive!

Yes, I do have that fundamental civil right to know my NSA number.  Maybe nothing other than that number but I have a right to the number and the accuracy of whatever information associated to that number that I have a civil right to know plus whatever information the NSA grants rights to me to know.

I call upon Senator Ron Wyden, my senator, the one I proudly voted for, to introduce legislation that requires the NSA to provide the master number of any citizen providing that the citizen can prove beyond a shadow of doubt that they are in fact the citizen to which that number is assigned.  The burden of proof that the person requesting their own unique NSA number is not in fact the person the number is assigned to is upon the NSA.  Otherwise the NSA must by law as an unalienable right of citizenship provide the Master NSA ID number to the requesting citizen.

The rule:  No two citizens have the same number!  All citizens have the right to at least know their own number.  Rights to know or validate any information held by the NSA related to that number are negotiable.

We have the same right to know our master number assigned to us without our knowledge from any company that the government deems To Big Not To Know (TBNTK)  or some better acronym that may be more appropriate like ITSME.

Don't you think that it is appropriate for me and my right to at least know the name (number) the government (NSA) has given me?

The ultimate aim of an information management system is reduction of ambiguity.  One of the ultimate verifications of the purity and exclusivity of the one to one relationship between me and my NSA number is me knowing my number.

We are headed for a master number for each of us.  India is ahead of us in regard to doing that for or to its citizens.  The question is:  Will the master number be done to us or for our benefit?  It all depends on how we a citizens in the Information Age choose to have that number created and managed. 

We will with absolutely certainty have a master number.  We surely have it now.  It is time we take control of at least the right to know the number and the scheme by which it is assigned and the its conditions of use related to our constitutional privacy rights.