Re:Peter Sunde: 'I went to jail for my cause. What did you do?'
by waterlesscloud on Thursday December 11, 2014 @09:01AM
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So then does the same apply to the copy of your emails that travel across the internet? Once the NSA obtains a copy, do they then have a close-to-inalienable right to do whatever they want with what is then their property?
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Re:Peter Sunde: 'I went to jail for my cause. What did you do?'
by lmm on Thursday December 11, 2014 @09:06AM
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Yes they do. I would argue for privacy laws, specific exceptions to that right, just as I support trade secret law. But it would be an exception, a deeply unnatural change to the legal norm, and I would have to make the case on its merits that the value to society of such privacy laws was worth that extraordinary curtailment of the NSA's usual rights.