It would be nice if the government imposed the same requirements on its own departments for violations of privacy as it does on private companies. Seems to me

It would be nice if the government imposed the same requirements on its own departments for violations of privacy as it does on private companies. Seems to me that government is eager to punish private companies for violations, while increasing its own storage of personal information on innocent people. In this comments section, someone else said: > [..] when it comes to mass surveillance,intentionally malicious backdoors and general societal loss of ptivacy, the solution should be primarly legislative not technical. I'd object to this, given that a legislative solution is unable to restrict government collection of private data, while a technical one isn't (case in point: cryptography).