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There is no need for any sort of future law, that data is open to law enforcement already. That is the fundamental problem in all of this: decade old court deci
by revelation 10y ago
There is no need for any sort of future law, that data is open to law enforcement already. That is the fundamental problem in all of this: decade old court decisions that determined you have no "reasonable expectation of privacy" in data you shared with a company.
AT&T turned this into a product:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-27/us-taxpayers-pay-att-millions-year-privilege-being-spied-upon http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-27/us-taxpayers-pay-at...
That may have been a useful policy in a time where you yourself could decide what data you shared, now that devices share data on your behalf that can be stored forever, aggregated, analyzed and what not it is clearly no longer acceptable. We desperately need a whitelist approach to companies storing and handling cleartext user- and metadata.