Sauce for the gander
2013-06-18 16:11:37.437071+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
... There has been much noise from organisations promoting freedom of expression that CMS violates the right to privacy guaranteed under Article 21. Where do they stand now, when the beacon for democracy and fundamental rights is exposed as watching the world, without any qualms about the privacy of citizens? The US has lost the credibility to preach freedom of expression on the internet, and privacy protection. Freedom to connect? One may have to think again.
And during the Boston bombing investigations, there was an interesting exchange that at the time I just wrote off to a clueless interviewee:
Is there any way … they [the federal investigators] can try to get the phone companies to give that up … It’s not a voice mail. It's just a conversation. There’s no way they can actually find out what [was said on the call], right, unless she tells them?
Clemente: There is a way. We certainly have ways in national security investigations to find out exactly what was said in that conversation. It's not necessarily something that the FBI is going to want to present in court, but it may help lead the investigation … we certainly can find that out.
Might not be as much of an overstatement as we thought. Via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5897903