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Simple: create a government department whose prime duty is to protect the 4th amendment. They would seek out and shut down any scheme that is illegitimately col
by pcrh 13y ago
Simple: create a government department whose prime duty is to protect the 4th amendment. They would seek out and shut down any scheme that is illegitimately collecting personal information.
The technology exists, it can be done.
Edit: the whole Chicken Little "the genie is out" scaremongering is defeatist garbage. No people more than HN readers know that the effort required to collect and parse all the information flowing through the internet is not trivial. It is easy to stop since only well-funded outfits can do it.
- uptown 13y ago"It is easy to stop since only well-funded outfits can do it." And you think depriving the government - particularly the department of defense - of tax dollars is "easy"?
- pcrh 13y agoI meant it is easy technologically. Having a government department that thwarts the wishes of the population is a political problem, not a technical one.
- noarchy 13y ago>create a government department whose prime duty is to protect the 4th amendment. The task you've described should be fulfilled by the judicial system. But ultimately we're still relying on getting the government to protect us from the government... and still wondering why it never works.