Re:Singapore Government Tech Stack
by saghm on Saturday May 07, 2022 @02:34PM
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I think it's fair, given that GP mentioned "There is no constitutional right to privacy in Singapore so they did not actually break any laws". There's a long history to the debate of whether there's a constitutional right to privacy in the US; it's not explicitly mentioned in the Constitution but it's a fairly common interpretation nowadays, so whether or not the courts in the US would consider it legal if the US government did this is not a sure thing either way.
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lgvln wasn't comparing it to the US. quinnjh was the one who brought up the US.
Looked at a wiki article, and it looks like not many states have a "right to privacy" in their constitution but rather have it specified by various other laws.
My point was that there's disagreement about whether the US has a right to privacy, compared to in Singapore which, at least based on the comments in the thread, it seems like there's consensus that there isn't one.