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The legal frameworks surrounding privacy all revolve heavily around "reasonable expectations of privacy". I can't be upset if someone learns salacious informati
by lukifer 7y ago
The legal frameworks surrounding privacy all revolve heavily around "reasonable expectations of privacy". I can't be upset if someone learns salacious information from the street through an open window; but if I close the blinds and someone intentionally peeks through a crack, they are violating my expectation of privacy and potentially breaking a law, even though I failed to secure that privacy properly by covering every square inch of the window.
In some cases, it can be possible to use E2E encryption to create a secret that is functionally impossible to discover. But even in cases where digital security is flawed, vulnerable, or outsourced to a third party, it's still valuable to us from a legal standpoint to maintain social expectations of privacy.