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How could this legislation possibly pass constitutional muster? You're essentially forcing companies to create code for you.
by beedogs 11y ago
How could this legislation possibly pass constitutional muster? You're essentially forcing companies to create code for you.
- Esau 11y agoWe are all, evidently, deputized slaves of the state.
- dbcurtis 11y agoFeinstein has never let the constitution stand in her way.
- mahyarm 11y agoI always wondered what stopped the legislature passing laws that are unconstitutional, having it canceled a few years later by the supreme court and then passing a similar law again and having that take a few years in a large cycle. Unconstitutional laws basically become laws with informal sunsetting clauses.
- Jach 11y ago"John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it!" The checks and balances the US has are generally pretty weak.
- shadowfiend 11y agoOften part of disputing the constitutionality of a law is requesting that the court considering it also temporarily put its enforcement on hold, as I understand it. If the court chooses to (and in a case where a law that was already basically ruled unconstitutional has been passed again, one assumes it would so choose), that law is simply ineffective until a final ruling is obtained. Naturally, you can appeal the decision to hold the law's enforcement, but the law is on hold unless and until a higher court overturns it.
- marme 11y agoit cant, the first company that gets asked to comply with this law will challenge it and it will be struck down. Past eaves dropping laws have only required that companies give the Feds access but they provide their own man power and resources. This is how NSA and others have employees with offices inside ISP datacenters. The ISPs merely provide them with full access to their datacenters but the government must provide all the workers who actually go through the data
- lazaroclapp 11y ago> it cant, the first company that gets asked to comply with this law will challenge it The first company with enough resources to endure a prolonged legal battle against the federal government, that is. What I wonder is what the response of the average 5 person startup with data on millions of users all over the world is going to be...
- lawnchair_larry 11y agoBecause somehow people who don't even know what "code" means are in charge of technology for the country.