Re:Re: Obama on Fetishizing Our Phones
by JoshTriplett on Sunday March 13, 2016 @08:52PM
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> With that statement of mine I was mostly trying to convey how some things shouldn't be easy.
I agree completely. I think attempts to paint this as a "reversal" of hundreds of years of governmental warrant procedure is ignoring that these new devices and this new data didn't exist hundreds of years ago. If we're going to put a huge amount of valuable data about our lives in one place, we'd better protect that place better than we've ever protected anything before.
With that statement of mine I was mostly trying to convey how some things shouldn't be easy.
Let me try to paraphrase:
I'm sure that Sherlock would find a way to open that safe without a computer doing it for him!
To a certain degree I can understand the frustration of executive agencies over their apparent missing-out on all the shiny low-hanging fruit - but they shouldn't worry so much as the promises of most tech be it the use of "big data" or accessing our all-encompassing "personal assistants" ultimately won't free them of doing their jobs.