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While it's definitely true that humanity is complacent overall (clearly), there are some very important differences between the US and Australia. Australia has

While it's definitely true that humanity is complacent overall (clearly), there are some very important differences between the US and Australia. Australia has actually moved on ending secure encryption for example. That's not yet the case in the US and it's questionable whether the authorities will be able to (they already would have, if they could have), overcoming the significant constitutional hurdles.

BiteCode_dev 5y ago
There is no need to end encryption in the USA, because the way they collect the data works around the problem entirely. With secret subpoenas, gag orders and programs like PRISM, they get what they need directly from the source. Either from the services hosting the data, or the devices producing/receiving the data. The data is never collected while in transit, when it's encrypted. They got the keys for the servers, and back-doors to our devices. They don't care about encryption at all. Once again, freedom is not a technical problem: https://xkcd.com/538/ https://xkcd.com/538/