Re:UK surveillance bill includes powers to limit end-to-end ...
by blowski on Monday July 25, 2016 @04:56PM
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Other people - probably the majority of the UK population based on opinion polls and elections - weigh the balance differently. We (HN readers) are probably in the extreme minority, and we are not necessarily right.
There do exist more reasonable compromises. For example, we as a society have already said that you can search someone's property if you get a court order. That's a smaller cost, because the authorities are forced to go through a supervised process before anyone's privacy is in jeopardy, and it's still sufficient to find the evidence in a huge proportion of cases.
But the proposal on the table is extreme. It affects everyone's privacy, before there's even a notion that a crime has been considered.