US Border Patrol says they can create central repository of traveler emails

Re:US Border Patrol says they can create central repository ... by teddyh on Sunday August 23, 2020 @12:05PM (#24252805)

Even if this works for now, for you, you have only solved the problem for yourself. But the problem of privacy is a collective problem in society, so unless most people have privacy, you don’t have it, either.

This would be like commenting on censorship/non-free speech laws that you’d solve it for yourself by using Tor or some other anonymizing method. That would not solve the problem of a society which will lack free speech, and if a society did not have free speech, you would have problems, even if you’d manage to somehow get free speech for yourself.

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Re:US Border Patrol says they can create central repository ... by hcnews on Sunday August 23, 2020 @02:06PM (#24253880)

Most likely solution isn't either/or between two options but rather both. Lots of people will start doing this and make it more accessible for the common man while others are getting the law changed (if).

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