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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (922673)	2/22/2016 9:13:53 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570721

I'm tired of government intrusion. I could see it right after 9/11. No. Not even after something like 9/11. You have to be very careful about what you allow agencies like the FBI, the CIA and the NSA do. Always. Because once they get permission to do something, they assume they always have permission. And once it was decided you don't have a right to privacy of what is on your phone, well that particular genie is hard to stuff back into the bottle. The problem with people who work in security is they think they should have access to all data, no matter how trivial. Because that is just the way they are usually wired. It doesn't matter if it helps them solve cases, the fact that it might in some extremely unlikely circumstances or they can do equally as well without access makes no difference at all. They just want it. This should have been the discussion when Snowden went public. What information should be allowed to be collected was the important question. Instead we discussed what kind of criminal or hero Snowden is/was. Since we didn't have that discussion then and we still haven't this comes up. It is, at most, just a small step from where things were before. Just a little more specific, but still within the same general parameters or not. This shouldn't be an issue of whether or not you have something to hide. The issue is how intrusive do you let entities get? As Americans, we have very little rights to privacy. And even those are under steady erosion. And that is fine if that is what we, as a people, have agreed to. But we have had almost no discussion about privacy, so both government and private industry are grabbing while the grabbing is good.