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Right, but it's not that black and white. There are exceptions for law enforcement, and details as to where it is applicable. My point is that the solution is
by Nitramp 5y ago
Right, but it's not that black and white. There are exceptions for law enforcement, and details as to where it is applicable.
My point is that the solution is in politics and law making, to regulate these details.
Case in point: in my continental European home country, cloud emails are protected the same way as all your other communications, where in the US it appears they are not (?).
Which is to say: similar basic rules may yield pretty different outcomes, and the difference I believe is in politics.
- xvector 5y agoThe point is that in the US, there are not exceptions to our constitutional rights, but the government itself routinely engages in unconstitutional and illegal covert surveillance of citizens. We already have the rights you discuss enshrined in our founding document, but the government just... ignores it. At this point the only real solution is well-applied cryptography.
- Nitramp 5y ago> the government itself routinely engages in unconstitutional and illegal covert surveillance of citizens. This must be the subject of legal and political debate, right? Otherwise people would sue in the Supreme Court (or have already done that)? > At this point the only real solution is well-applied cryptography. See the other comment about the $5 wrench. I believe cryptography at best can attempt to patch some failures temporarily. The only long term fix is fixing the government.