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Did you even think out this train of thought? Does this cover medical communications, military secrets, private chat between family members, etc?
by iamdelirium 3y ago
Did you even think out this train of thought? Does this cover medical communications, military secrets, private chat between family members, etc?
- networkchad 3y ago[dead]
- rollcat 3y ago> Did you even think out this train of thought? Of course not, I'm just a random person on the Internet ;) The problem here is that a basic loophole is being abused to defeat the spirit of the law, thus making the operation of the government less transparent. The consequences should ramp up in proportion with the level of the abuse. You're using private WhatsApp to conduct state business? Your WhatsApp chat logs should be subject to FoI. If you want to keep family chat private, then move it to Telegram, and DON'T use Telegram to conduct state business, because otherwise your Telegram chat logs are next up to be scrutinized. I don't think the "spirit" of this idea is going too far? > military secrets There already are established procedures and laws for dealing with state secrets, including strategic information such as submarine designs, locations, nuke launch codes, etc. Whatever FoI/transparency laws are in place, they need to respect the need for protecting state secrets - that should be pretty obvious.