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I’d be pretty upset if Congress subpoenaed user data from Facebook and then selectively published embarrassing info on their political enemies. Even if I hated
by rhizome 8y ago
I’d be pretty upset if Congress subpoenaed user data from Facebook and then selectively published embarrassing info on their political enemies. Even if I hated those people.
I think it's more like this, which if you've been paying attention has been going on for a long time. If you want to bet that the US hasn't snatched data they want when they know someone is in the country even temporarily, I'll take that bet.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/warrantless-phone-laptop-searches-at-the-us-border-hit-record-levels/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/warrantless-phone-laptop-searc...
Among people who have a problem with the Six4Three situation, I feel like the issue is really just that we found out about it. The powers are already there, waiting to be used.
- ryanwaggoner 8y agoThe government is invading our privacy with surveillance and border searches, agreed. No defense or denial of that here. But I don’t see stories where some congressperson is then publishing some of the fruits of that surveillance or searches just to embarrass political rivals. That would be especially beyond the pale.
- rhizome 8y agoDoes everything have to be done by the American version of something before it's legitimate?