> The European Commission is honestly asking for experts to advise them on ways to institute “effective and lawful access to data for law enforcement”.
Funny, isn't it? Police have more data on us than ever, by far. Yet the more we are tracked*, the more urgent it is to invade the tiny few scraps of privacy we have left. Not just invade, but make that invasion effortless, so they can do it in bulk, to everyone.
*By the phones we carry and the networks they connect to, by cameras in public (license-plate reading and increasingly facial recognition ones), by social networks, by websites, by tracking dots in printers, by credit cards, by idling drones with high-definition cameras in the sky, and in some cases, targeted surveillance that is nearly unbeatable thanks to technology (laser microphones, telescopic lenses, tiny tracking and listening devices..)
ahubert•7mo ago
What you say is true for some police forces in some countries, but not for others.
like_any_other•7mo ago
Funny, isn't it? Police have more data on us than ever, by far. Yet the more we are tracked*, the more urgent it is to invade the tiny few scraps of privacy we have left. Not just invade, but make that invasion effortless, so they can do it in bulk, to everyone.
*By the phones we carry and the networks they connect to, by cameras in public (license-plate reading and increasingly facial recognition ones), by social networks, by websites, by tracking dots in printers, by credit cards, by idling drones with high-definition cameras in the sky, and in some cases, targeted surveillance that is nearly unbeatable thanks to technology (laser microphones, telescopic lenses, tiny tracking and listening devices..)
ahubert•7mo ago