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I'm saying the tech is a weapon you use to target something, ideally for good reasons, but it's still a weapon and it's the targeting decision that needs accou

I'm saying the tech is a weapon you use to target something, ideally for good reasons, but it's still a weapon and it's the targeting decision that needs accountability. Knowing what I do about tech, I don't think privacy and security are a trade off or zero sum. I do think privacy and surveillance are a trade off, and surveillance is what you have when you don't have security or trustworthy systems. I agree there is actual evil in the world, and it's particularly where you don't expect it. The law isn't designed to fight evil. As a society, a better cultural understanding of evil would do more to improve our ability to deal with it than blunt technical weapons to surveil it.

3pt14159 6y ago
I agree that the law isn't designed to fight evil, but many laws are designed to fight evil. It's a subtle distinction, but one worth pointing out. Surveillance is part of sense-making for law enforcement and even though I don't think that security and privacy are always at odds, and there are definitely cases where they are not zero-sum, when dealing with persons of interest in criminal investigations it tends to be the case that degrading a suspects privacy improves societies security. But it should be done right. Warrants, probable cause, etc.