Re:White House weighs encryption crackdown
by zaroth on Friday June 28, 2019 @02:33PM
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The ability to not be forced to participation in one’s own prosecution is one of those rights the Constitution guarantees.
The fact that modern life typically entails recording and documenting almost every single thing you do during the day, and yet law enforcement complains about “going dark”? Utter nonsense.
People have never been more widely tracked, or more widely accountable. The absolute last thing we have is a privacy epidemic.
The government has the right to investigate crimes. They do not have a specific right for defendants to keep records of what they did wrong or to be provided that evidence, outside the context of business regulations which require specific paperwork be maintained.
And by the way, the Constitution specifically enumerates what powers the Federal government has. All Else is reserved to the States, or to the People.
Which is why we weren’t supposed to need a Bill of Rights in the first place. The Constitution doesn’t enumerate Speech or Assembly as something the government can control, therefore it is not. However the Framers didn’t all agree we shouldn’t go and list a bunch of things just in case, except that it might make people think if it’s not listed then maybe it’s not a Right?
The fact that modern life typically entails recording and documenting almost every single thing you do during the day, and yet law enforcement complains about “going dark”? Utter nonsense.
People have never been more widely tracked, or more widely accountable. The absolute last thing we have is a privacy epidemic.
The government has the right to investigate crimes. They do not have a specific right for defendants to keep records of what they did wrong or to be provided that evidence, outside the context of business regulations which require specific paperwork be maintained.
And by the way, the Constitution specifically enumerates what powers the Federal government has. All Else is reserved to the States, or to the People.
Which is why we weren’t supposed to need a Bill of Rights in the first place. The Constitution doesn’t enumerate Speech or Assembly as something the government can control, therefore it is not. However the Framers didn’t all agree we shouldn’t go and list a bunch of things just in case, except that it might make people think if it’s not listed then maybe it’s not a Right?