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I don't think it's irrational to believe that there is little meaningful difference between Trump and Clinton, or Obama for that matter, when it comes to digita

• snowwrestler 10y ago
  There's a lot more to digital surveillance and privacy than the NSA. Local and state police use digital surveillance technology extensively. Clinton called for police reforms and de-militarization. Trump's policies call for greater police authority and "law and order" above all else. Trump policies will clearly empower and fund greater police surveillance of citizens. Trump also proposed several policies that would only work with an increase in the depth and breadth of digital surveillance--like a national registry of Muslims, continuous tracking of all immigrants, and mass deportations of illegal immigrants. Even if you are in favor of deporting illegal immigrants, you must understand that the first step in doing so is finding the illegal immigrants. And the first step of that is to accumulate the largest possible data set on all American residents, so that you can filter for signals that might correlate with illegals. Finally, on the federal agencies, Clinton said in a town hall that she did not think the government should require backdoors in consumer technology. In contrast, Trump spoke in favor of forcing Apple and others to install backdoors for law enforcement. In short, if you think there was no difference between Clinton and Trump on issues of digital surveillance, I think you didn't do your homework.