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Re:The UK Is Trying to Stop Facebook's End-to-End Encryption by jariel on Sunday April 04, 2021 @02:14PM (#26691602)
Getting a warrant to spy on your neighbours wife would be like robbing a bank and leaving a note for the cops.

It's literally a crime done right in front of the police, with official records and signatures for you to be prosecuted.

The Justice system has all sorts of power. A cop can arrest you, right now, for no reason at all - which is totally against the law, but he could do it, you'd have to file a redress and hopefully they'd be charged.

So the issue isn't really about encryption, it's about the integrity of our systems.

We'll get 10x further by improving processes than otherwise.

Technology can help, but it's secondary.

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Re:The UK Is Trying to Stop Facebook's End-to-End Encryption by damagednoob on Sunday April 04, 2021 @08:32PM (#26694160)
> It's literally a crime done right in front of the police, with official records and signatures for you to be prosecuted.

How does the party know they have been wronged? Are they notified that someone has been given access to their browsing history?

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Re:The UK Is Trying to Stop Facebook's End-to-End Encryption by intricatedetail on Sunday April 04, 2021 @02:51PM (#26691854)
This all only works in theory. In reality police in the UK is mostly useless if you tried to report a crime. They won't touch anything unless it gets them PR points or you present all evidence, track the perpetrators and so on and still they may drop it because the judge wouldn't give them time so why bother. It's a problem that media don't talk about.
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Re:The UK Is Trying to Stop Facebook's End-to-End Encryption by azalemeth on Sunday April 04, 2021 @03:42PM (#26692238)
This is true with with minor crime. It's not true at all of violent crime, or serious cases; if you're knocked down by a drunk driver, the police absolutely are very good to you and do -- eventually -- get there. Minor theft? Expect less. Copyright infringement? Hope you are a big player, otherwise piss off...
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Re:The UK Is Trying to Stop Facebook's End-to-End Encryption by intricatedetail on Sunday April 04, 2021 @07:11PM (#26693650)
From my experience I disagree, even violent crime not always gets followed up. It's usually down to who committed it, who reports it, what is the chance of public outrage if ignored etc. It is maybe different in other parts of the country, sure.
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Re:The UK Is Trying to Stop Facebook's End-to-End Encryption by Talanes on Sunday April 04, 2021 @11:36PM (#26695072)
Mike Birbiglia has a whole one man show centered around being ordered to pay damages on the drunk driver who hit him - due to a sloppily written police report.
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