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Because corporations and governments always follow the laws they write and laws never get repealed and overridden. The fourth amendment already has a bunch of
by fiblye 7y ago
Because corporations and governments always follow the laws they write and laws never get repealed and overridden.
The fourth amendment already has a bunch of exceptions to it, and the constitution is the highest legal framework in the land. Other laws mean diddly.
- TheSpiceIsLife 7y agoLaws are a high latency side-chain of power and authority. That doesn't mean they are completely useless.
- infinitezest 7y agoI'm not sure anyone is proposing that laws are _entirely_ useless. But it a tech is powerful enough, any abuse at all has potential for widespread negative effects. In the US, we've already seen post-9/11 how laws are side-stepped, trampled or quietly ignored even by well-meaning actors. Plus, getting laws in place is _hard_. Much of the public doesn't care enough to make noise about this kind of tech until it has already been abused (and sometimes not even then). None of this is meant as an argument against your position per se; just counter-point.