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The reason people are 'fine' with it, is because it's a rational response to a real concern. Guccifer was hacking into people's accounts, revealing information
by jariel 6y ago
The reason people are 'fine' with it, is because it's a rational response to a real concern.
Guccifer was hacking into people's accounts, revealing information of a national interest.
So there is some proportional reaction by law enforcement.
"But when someone innocent gets caught up in it, then it's too late and there's no remedy."
Who are these innocents 'caught up in it', for which there 'no remedy'?
It's possible investigators make mistakes while matching DNA just as well, but we don't deny them the right, because it seems the 'science' supports DNA as evidence. So we use it.
I think that is a real but smaller concern - bigger concerns are large dragnets (arbitrary data collection), lack of oversight (no warrants), lack of proportionality (i.e. local Police getting access to all your searches because someone made a 'noise complaint'), and politicization (i.e. Trump getting search records on political enemies etc.).
- eanzenberg 6y agoThere are no innocents caught up in any of this, for decades. Its the boogeyman for powering through criminal rights.
- XMPPwocky 6y agoAha! Criminals don't deserve rights, that makes sense. Only law-abiding citizens do. Now, how do we tell the two apart? Well, we'll just watch everybody to see if they're a criminal or if they're not. But how do we know if we can watch somebody (and infringe on their right to privacy, if they're a law-abiding citizen) if we don't know whether they're a criminal or not? Hmmm....