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Every time I see one of these stories I wonder why the government has a seat at the table to decrease our rights. We currently have the right to encrypt backup
by LanceH 5y ago
Every time I see one of these stories I wonder why the government has a seat at the table to decrease our rights. We currently have the right to encrypt backups. Why is the government lobbying to take that away from us? This is a right the government should be protecting for us, instead of stripping away.
An enforcement agency should never be advocating against the rights of the people.
- sneak 5y agoThe people in society who appoint themselves as police also appoint themselves someone who is allowed superiority over those who do not. They expect to have rights that you don't have. They expect to violate your rights in ways the inverse would be a crime. There are always those who feel themselves above the common person, and appoint themselves decisionmaker unilaterally. This eventually happens in every country. There have been attempts to limit the scope and scale of spying, but so far nobody has ever been able to contain it. The US intelligence agencies now have utter control over the legislature and judiciary thanks to mass surveillance. There is no way to roll it back now. It's even illegal to talk about it in public, as Wyden and Snowden (and Clapper) have so fully illustrated.