03-28-2017, 05:29 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-28-2017, 05:31 PM by Ragnarök_62.)
(03-28-2017, 04:06 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: The only exceptions that I can see for denying privacy to web activity is a compelling need to thwart or investigate criminal misconduct. Criminal acts do not get any right of privacy. There might be value to sellers if buyers can be linked, but people shopping usually don't need any prodding. Tough luck may it be to people who use the Web to commit wire fraud, disseminate or purchase child pornography, deal drugs or weapons illegally, launder money, get involved in terrorist acts, or seek aid in committing crimes.
I can imagine the potential for abuse. If you search for the words "cancer" or "diabetes" on the web or read a story on either, will you lose your health insurance? Does your employer really need to know that you loathe Donald Trump? Are you trying to organize a union contrary to your employer's wishes? You could be fired.
All web activity should be kept private. That's a simple Bill of Rights question. I'd go for a "let's break a lot of eggs to make an omelet". If I had my way, I'd forbid any data sharing period. That of course means I'd certainly work for the abolishment of the NSA, DEA, NSI, and whatever other I spy agencies are around. I'd leave only 2 intelligence agencies, the FBI for domestic coordinated crime fighting. The CIA would be confined to foreign espionage. If some internet company wants you personal date, they would be required to ask for an opt in with explicit types of data to be shared. And... if some company violated those terms, then class action lawsuits should be the order of the day. Data sharing with governmental agencies would also be strictly forbidden. Crime fighting on teh interwebs needs to be just like most other places. If any government agency wants to view collected digital data, a warrant MUST BE ISSUED. I'll take assorted private crime over overbearing rights violations any day. You can't thwart crimes without stomping over millions of innocent folks' rights.
I'd certainly defund this piece of shit:
https://www.fbi.gov/services/laboratory/...ysis/codis
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