It's almost as if the government cares more about spewing data out to the public to make it look like it's doing its job rather than go through all of the trouble of creating lists that are actually usable:
One of the real differences between engineers and social engineers is that being a social engineer means never having to say that you are sorry or pay for the consequences of your actions when your work hurts people. If a bridge collapses, a civil engineer loses his license. If faulty software ends up killing someone, the software developer can often be sued despite what any EULA says. How many social engineers get sued because they create policy and law which flat out doesn't work and hurts people?
None.
According to a Belleville News-Democrat investigation, 11,473 people have appealed to strike their names from the state record. The list has a 27 percent error rate of parents falsely accused of abuse. Once on the list, people are required to remain there for a minimum of five years.With an error rate that high, the list is useless in practice. Just like the TSA no-fly list is useless today because it has so many thousands of people on it that shouldn't be on it. Just like how sex offender registries are often poorly updated, and cover so many crimes that they are barely usable for sorting the harmless from the harmful with respect to known offenders.
One of the real differences between engineers and social engineers is that being a social engineer means never having to say that you are sorry or pay for the consequences of your actions when your work hurts people. If a bridge collapses, a civil engineer loses his license. If faulty software ends up killing someone, the software developer can often be sued despite what any EULA says. How many social engineers get sued because they create policy and law which flat out doesn't work and hurts people?
None.
Of course. Government uses data to justify taking more power. In all areas. Accuracy matters not. Only the numbers that give them a reason, real or imagined, to accrue even more control.
"How many social engineers get sued because they create policy and law which flat out doesn't work and hurts people?"
I don't disagree, but it's probably because it's a lot harder to draw a clear cause-and-effect for a government agent's misconduct. And also because the person being held accountable is a government agent...they don't work for the taxpayer/customer, they work for the system. Their job is to follow the law, regardless of what the results are.
The others you spoke of were in private industry, where either the gov't holds them accountable, or the marketplace does. Either way, they're held to a standard of performance that g-men are not because of the way bureaucracies serve themselves.
I think that if a study were done by the IG that a certain piece of legislation were responsible for large scale lawlessness in the federal government that that might suffice as sufficient evidence to prove liability. Kinda like the issue with the FBI and the National Security Letters.
Why does government deceiving its people in spewing data out to the public to make it look like they doing their job rather than go through all of the trouble of creating lists that are actually usable. That’s why I don’t have any doubts that we cannot move on in this recession we are facing up. In relation to malicious acts, most of the banks we have are just after to the billions in bailout money given to them. I think these guys are up to something. The average amount of bank charges for late fees, overdrafts, ATM fees, and the like, is going up. It is a bit abrupt that we, the customers as well as the taxpayers, just gave them more installments loans from our taxes. I don’t think they really helping us when in fact this is the time they must be are umbrella in “rainy days”. It seems like they had better put that bailout money to use so that those of us who paid the taxes to bail them out don't have to get installment loans for charges for using the services of these banks. Now tell me which is more deceitful government or banks?