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Maybe it's time for a new Constitution amendment then. In a world where surveillance is so pervasive, and so potentially dangerous, the laws should be updated,
by devx 13y ago
Maybe it's time for a new Constitution amendment then. In a world where surveillance is so pervasive, and so potentially dangerous, the laws should be updated, if the old ones aren't sufficient to provide people the privacy they need in a democracy.
- glasz 13y agowould only work if you, the people, would make the laws. but since that's not the case anymore all these clueless law makers would shoot themselves in the foot.
- JWLong 13y agoIt was never the case.
- glasz 13y agothere you go...
- antsar 13y agoMore like shoot us in the foot. They will surely have been incentivised by the relevant parties to leave gaping loopholes allowing said relevant parties to continue doing what they're doing.
- glasz 13y agoalready going on. practically no difference.
- baconner 13y agoAn amendment would be nice though I'd settle for a lesser law to resolve these issues as well. Whatever can get it done. Seems to me there are a number of legal bugs where our laws fall apart at scale. The 2nd amendment is all well and good (my opinion) but arms tech scaled way beyond anything imaginable at the time and some line needed to be drawn on what qualified. Privacy law is having a similar issue as society shifts all its important data to digital storage and into third parties. Who could've imagined that centuries past? As a programmer it makes me wonder what the common anti patterns of law are.
- ihsw 13y agoThe impact of unchecked surveillance, like bad security, is impossibly difficult to quantify until shit hits the fan long enough for it to inconvenience people. Furthermore it's simple and easy to dismiss serious problems as exceptions to the rule, for example Snowden was branded as "very smart" after there were claims that a "high school dropout" evaded NSA's internal security systems and successfully escaped to Hong Kong. If there are egregious violations of privacy and freedom then we won't be seeing the admissions of guilt/reform, but instead we'll be seeing recriminations and diversions. There needs to be punitive measures in place to deter that kind of negligence and recklessness, in addition to the punishment for actual violations. Rehabilitation and recidivism are very serious issues that need to be focused on, especially because those who disregard privacy will do so on an ideological level -- it's part of their personal belief system.