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Re:As encryption spreads, U.S. grapples with clash between p... by MichaelGG on Saturday April 11, 2015 @06:13PM (#9361056)
Long term? Smaller and cheaper devices means people are even more easily spied upon. Privacy must be handled as a sacred law, because technology will blow past it. We simply leak too much information as a matter of physics.
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Re:As encryption spreads, U.S. grapples with clash between p... by eternalban on Saturday April 11, 2015 @09:39PM (#9361665)
> Privacy must be handled as a sacred law

Fully agree with this. Technology is merely an amplifying factor here. If a society is healthy, then applications of technologies of the day are non-issues.

Just keep in mind that 1776 would not have been a meaningful year if the founders could not even "assemble" and discuss legitimate grievances without fear of being subject to misuse of state power. This is why we have a 4th amendment.

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