Re:Judge orders Google to comply with FBI's secret NSL demands
by snowwrestler on Saturday June 01, 2013 @02:08AM
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If we posit that society should be free and open, then what is the problem with the government obtaining this information in the first place?
By analogy: I walk down a public street freely and you can take my picture freely, and follow me, and make notes about my whereabouts. You're under no obligation to notify me that you're collecting that information about me, since I'm moving in public.
Not that I'm arguing in favor of this government power. I'm just saying that I think the heart of the matter is that we feel that some aspects of society should not be free and open. There should be a significant legal burden on the gathering of certain information.
By analogy: I walk down a public street freely and you can take my picture freely, and follow me, and make notes about my whereabouts. You're under no obligation to notify me that you're collecting that information about me, since I'm moving in public.
Not that I'm arguing in favor of this government power. I'm just saying that I think the heart of the matter is that we feel that some aspects of society should not be free and open. There should be a significant legal burden on the gathering of certain information.