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Collecting information prior to the delivery of a warrant is unreasonably invasive. If you extend the reasoning then they could post a video camera in your home
by Joeri 13y ago
Collecting information prior to the delivery of a warrant is unreasonably invasive. If you extend the reasoning then they could post a video camera in your home, filming everything you do, and then get a warrant to obtain the material at any point in the future. Our digital homes should have the same safeguards in place that our physical homes have: nobody has access before a warrant, and with a warrant they can only find out what's there now, not what's been there in the past.
- mpyne 13y agoAre you referring to Prism or the "beam splitting"? Prism sends over data that was already generated; it's not the government's fault that the company bothered to generate it but if they get a warrant why should they pretend like it didn't exist? I'm not sure how you would even begin to investigate things like 9/11 if you weren't allowed to collect evidence from actions that occurred before the crime came to the attention of the government. If you're talking about beam-splitting then, well, I see your argument. But that's not what I was talking about in my parent comment.