What many here are asserting is basically a form of individual sovereignty, that a person should have the ability to create and share information that the gover

What many here are asserting is basically a form of individual sovereignty, that a person should have the ability to create and share information that the government cannot read. This will never happen. The government is always going to assert that your rights are contingent on the government's ability to violate those rights if it thinks it has sufficient cause according to some standard. Many of you are arguing that the government should completely give up that ability for regular crime that probably happens thousands of times across the country every day. You are now thinking, what about encryption, PGP, passphrases, I have a legal right to not have to give those up, don't I? Yes, we are very lucky that in the United States the Supreme Court has decided that you don't have to give up a password. But this was because it used to be that a password didn't actually protect very much and the legal system hasn't caught up yet. Lock combinations are meaningless when the government can just crack the safe, and passwords to email are meaningless when they can just compel the email service to cough up the mail. The court's aware of PGP, but the times it actually hasn't been able to get the data through other means is currently small so it's still not worth the political battle. When the device that most people can carry around in their pockets is sufficiently secure that nobody can get the contents without compelling the owner to give up the passphrase, legislation will be introduced for backdoor access or the Supreme Court will rule that you have to give up the passphrase. That is why device LE access is, believe it or not, a compromise. They are willing to overlook nerds using PGP because that's still niche, but encrypted unbreakable devices are an existential threat to the government's ability to control everyone's life for good or for ill. I still think it needs to be fought as long as possible, but I am under no illusions that we will ultimately lose.