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Virtue-signaling messaging aside, do you feel that this _isn't_ a case that should be within the spirit of the EFF for defending "digital privacy"? In my mind,
by hlieberman 4y ago
Virtue-signaling messaging aside, do you feel that this _isn't_ a case that should be within the spirit of the EFF for defending "digital privacy"?
In my mind, there's a direct line from the government requiring someone to use a particular computer program for a particular purpose to the government requiring us _all_ to use a particular computer program. It would certainly be more cost efficient for the US Postal Service to stop delivering mail across the country and replace it by opening letters, scanning them, and making them available to me by email... but I would hope that the EFF would fight tooth and nail to prevent that.
Just as in so many things, these sort of technologies are tested first on those who can't easily say no—prisoners, students, the poor—before they are rolled out to us all.
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- bombcar 4y agoThe USPS will already scan envelopes en-route to you; I'm almost certain they could open them and do the same quite easily, maybe for a fee. https://www.usps.com/manage/informed-delivery.htm https://www.usps.com/manage/informed-delivery.htm