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It is crazy the level of care we have in wiretapping laws for domestic phone calls, while almost nothing for digital communication if the company volunteers it.
by cma 3y ago
It is crazy the level of care we have in wiretapping laws for domestic phone calls, while almost nothing for digital communication if the company volunteers it.
- thfuran 3y agoYeah, the third party doctrine is complete crap in the modern era. At the very least, what constitutes voluntarily turning over information to a third party needs to be far more narrowly defined, but I think the entire premise is a bit shaky.
- _heimdall 3y agoIt actually seems understandable to me. Many politicians in the US are former lawyers, judges, etc. They could easily have learned lessons of how much privacy protections can get in the way of "real" investigations. They're also part of a government that has been handed more and more power for the better part of 60 years, privacy laws are a problem if your honest view is that the government is there to protect us by whatever means are necessary.