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Always use E2EE if you're worried. Then, the major things a govt would get from a warrant would be the metadata and the to/from. How can an email provider be r
by doggodaddo78 5y ago
Always use E2EE if you're worried. Then, the major things a govt would get from a warrant would be the metadata and the to/from.
How can an email provider be required to spend time and money to spy on all of its users for a government without a specific warrant?
Edit: No Clipper chips. Not this again. No way. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip
- Aerroon 5y agoWorse things have been done before though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Retention_Directive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Retention_Directive ISPs were required to save logs of their users' traffic in the EU. Eventually this got squashed by the courts, but that took years.
- doggodaddo78 5y agoYes, I'm well-aware. Beyond the Utah datacenter's storage abilities as a privacy eliminator and blackmail facility, there were a worse series of mass privacy-invasions in the US enabled by corporate interests including FAIRVIEW and the "Room 641A"s. https://theintercept.com/2018/06/25/att-internet-nsa-spy-hubs/ https://theintercept.com/2018/06/25/att-internet-nsa-spy-hub... In these instance, it's not public what volunteering, complicity, inducements, cajoling, and/or leverage were used to attain such arrangements.