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A comment on Statement on EU-US Cooperation on Turning Public Opinion Against Encryption. Parent comment

Re:Statement on EU-US Cooperation on Turning Public Opinion ... by rnk on Monday April 24, 2023 @01:57PM (#35690933)
In the US, there's not a right to privacy, or at best it's complicated. At least federalists or conservatives endlessly argue that doesn't exist, for reasons that I don't understand. If we had a right to privacy in the US, it probably wouldn't protect criminal communications, and the potential of illegal behavior is used as the justification for all kinds of quasi illegal investigations.
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Re:Statement on EU-US Cooperation on Turning Public Opinion ... by genewitch on Monday April 24, 2023 @08:08PM (#35694926)
this reminds me of something i learned the other day, the "statute of limitations" on crimes pauses if the suspect "flees". Since "flees" is subject to interpretation, this is a backdoor into not having a statute of limitations at all. Unlawful searches and seizures bearing fruit of the poisonous tree can be backdoor with "parallel construction".

If you ever want to be annoyed at the "protections" we have from the government - in writing - https://lawcomic.net/

The police, prosecutors, et al have "magic words" they can say that ctrl-Z their bad acts and you still get screwed. And that's in the US, too.

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