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Honest question: does the RCMP require background checks for employees of civilian telephony providers?
by joshes 16y ago
Honest question: does the RCMP require background checks for employees of civilian telephony providers?
- joe_the_user 16y agoActually, I think that's also a fine rhetorical question - in the sense of a question of who's answer is fairly obvious and which points to a large reality. ("Honest question" is fine way to say "this is not a rhetorical question". That's just to help clarity, rhetorical questions are fine tools of expression...) Even in the unlikely event that the RCMP is filtering some civilian employees, the overall reality is that far more information flows across the Internet to far more people than one could assure accountability around. So it is completely idiotic to up a surveillance network which looks so deeply into each person's communication that it would require serious accountability among the watchers. Since that accountability won't be there. Look airport security personnel, then imagine them going through your emails for bad stuff. It is worth remembers that the abusiveness of a society of surveillance often doesn't come so much from a single dictator but rather from a vast array of unaccountable Apparatchiks abusing their petty but unchecked power.
- cperciva 16y agoEmployees of phone companies generally? No, of course not. Employees who have access to the wire-tap systems? I'm sure they do.
- joe_the_user 16y agoCan you back that up with anything other than your personal certainty.
- cperciva 16y agoI have reasons to believe this, but none I can present here.