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My go to response for this now is to appeal to good old Cardinal Richelieu: "Give me six lines written in the hand of the most honest man and I will see him han
by hyperion2010 12y ago
My go to response for this now is to appeal to good old Cardinal Richelieu: "Give me six lines written in the hand of the most honest man and I will see him hanged." When you give the state total control over information and it interpretation then it doesn't matter whether you have nothing to hide, because the state can simply fabricate it.
- pcrh 12y agoAn addendum to that is that that if a sufficiently large and diverse dataset is interrogated, then one can find connections between person A and criminal B, when such connections, while real, are accidental.
- chillingeffect 12y agoExactly. It's not just the collecting of the data that's dangerous, but the absolutely belief in it's veracity. Consider the recent google case where they reported a guy to authorities for child porn... Couldn't any ISP simply insert child porn into someone's email and report them? Doesn't that mean ISPs could go after anyone they have a personal grudge against. Everyone will believe the evidence the ISP produces.