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Re:Clarifications regarding arrest of climate activist by tsimionescu on Monday September 06, 2021 @03:00PM (#28436834)
While you're probably right that this would not be allowed, I fail to understand why so many people thinktthis is normal. The postal system can't open your letters to check if there's CP in them, so it used to be that you could send CP over the mail between PO boxes and feel safe. Yet having untraceable communication over the internet is considered unthibkable for some reason.
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Re:Clarifications regarding arrest of climate activist by luckylion on Monday September 06, 2021 @03:04PM (#28436868)
> The postal system can't open your letters to check if there's CP in them, so it used to be that you could send CP over the mail between PO boxes and feel safe.

Wat? You better stop sending anything incriminating via the mail, they totally can and will open your letters if there's a court order.

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Re:Clarifications regarding arrest of climate activist by tsimionescu on Monday September 06, 2021 @08:24PM (#28439536)
If there's a court order. With digital data, companies are forced to scan my data in their storage to see if it's copyright infringing or CP or others.

And to be clear, I don't think people have any kind of right to create, disseminate, or even view CP. But that doesn't mean that any guarantees to data privacy should be thrown away.

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Re:Clarifications regarding arrest of climate activist by luckylion on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @07:00AM (#28443263)
> With digital data, companies are forced to scan my data in their storage to see if it's copyright infringing or CP or others.

I don't think they are. What Apple & friends are doing is voluntarily. There's no requirement for e.g. your webhoster do scan your data, or your email provider to scan your emails. Case in point: ProtonMail doesn't, and they're not violating the law by not doing so.

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Re:Clarifications regarding arrest of climate activist by simonh on Monday September 06, 2021 @03:11PM (#28436922)
In this case law enforcement know who they were after, in that situation they would also have been able to intercept physical mail.
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Re:Clarifications regarding arrest of climate activist by tsimionescu on Monday September 06, 2021 @08:25PM (#28439540)
True, I was thinking more of the requirement on cloud providers to scan data proactively.
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