Re:Amazon to hand over Echo audio from alleged murder after ...
by LordKano on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @01:10PM
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If all of your friends jumped off of a digital bridge... You know the rest.
It WILL be used if it isn't smothered in its crib.
It's the nature of both government and technology.
Today, it's about convenience and whiz-bang "Look at what we can do" demonstrations but if allowed to continue, it will become a tool of the surveillance state. It's too powerful a tool to be ignored.
When CALEA was up for debate, those of us who feared that it would lead to widespread surveillance were ridiculed. It turns out, we were right. We're right about this too.
It WILL be used if it isn't smothered in its crib.
It's the nature of both government and technology.
Today, it's about convenience and whiz-bang "Look at what we can do" demonstrations but if allowed to continue, it will become a tool of the surveillance state. It's too powerful a tool to be ignored.
When CALEA was up for debate, those of us who feared that it would lead to widespread surveillance were ridiculed. It turns out, we were right. We're right about this too.