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Probably again making legal what has been going on illegally for a long time.

• eponeponepon 10y ago
  Precisely what the Investigatory Powers act in the UK has done. It's all very sordid: "We've been doing something illegal in secret? Well, let's just make it legal and pretend it's new." Ugly stuff, and risky for our collective future, but it's where we in the west are now as a society, and we weill have to make the best of it.
  • benevol 10y ago
    > we will have to make the best of it. The thing is, technology alone will not be enough as a protection. We need a sane legal framework. They have a virtually unlimited budget (our taxes) that they can use against us and they will always find new ways to carry out their mass surveillance. If we allow our governments to take our money to make us puppets, then we're pretty much f#cked until the next big revolution (in whatever form that will have to be).
  • deckar01 10y ago
    Make the best of it? I would prefer relentlessly challenging it in court and attempting to subvert it with technology.
    • eponeponepon 10y ago
      Yes. My belief is that the balance of power has already slipped too far against us and that actively attempting to change the situation is no longer possible without tearing down the bulk of modern society at the same time. I may be viewing things too negatively, but on balance I think that I am not.
  • pipio21 10y ago
    The East in in a worse position that we are. Instead of having to deal with it we have to face it an confront, fight and destroy authoritarian laws as much as we can.