Re:Patriot Act amendment needing a warrant for browsing hist...
by tialaramex on Thursday May 14, 2020 @09:10AM
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The main practical problem is that the NSA and similar agencies currently collect absolutely everything. Regardless of warrants, constitutional amendments, or senators banging their fists on the table, these agencies operate with impunity and they know it.
DoH pragmatically reduces their ability to conduct such global surveillance. "Pervasive Monitoring is An Attack".
We speak of man's laws and nature's as though they were the same kind of thing but they really, really aren't. I can no more magically replay the session keys from last week's Wikipedia visit in response to a court order, a warrant or the US Constitution itself than I could dance on the surface of the sun if they required that.
The idea here isn't that Public Enemy Number One today is protected from surveillance, but instead that you today are protected from the hypothetical surveillance of your past that might be authorised if some day you become Public Enemy Number One.
DoH pragmatically reduces their ability to conduct such global surveillance. "Pervasive Monitoring is An Attack".
We speak of man's laws and nature's as though they were the same kind of thing but they really, really aren't. I can no more magically replay the session keys from last week's Wikipedia visit in response to a court order, a warrant or the US Constitution itself than I could dance on the surface of the sun if they required that.
The idea here isn't that Public Enemy Number One today is protected from surveillance, but instead that you today are protected from the hypothetical surveillance of your past that might be authorised if some day you become Public Enemy Number One.