Arguments about the 'right to privacy' are doomed to fail. Governments are delighted to engage on this question, its no problem for them; any privacy rights are effortlessly trumped by the list of supposed benefits to society that State snooping promises.
The opponents of State snooping are therefore, ipso facto, pro crime, terror, death etc etc. In political terms, the debate is unwinnable since few if any if us can list the counterbalancing benefits of individual privacy rights in persuasive terms. Certainly not in less than the 15 seconds attention span of listeners.
The question should be: "By what right do you (the State) snoop on me, and under which specific circumstances"?
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The opponents of State snooping are therefore, ipso facto, pro crime, terror, death etc etc. In political terms, the debate is unwinnable since few if any if us can list the counterbalancing benefits of individual privacy rights in persuasive terms. Certainly not in less than the 15 seconds attention span of listeners.
The question should be: "By what right do you (the State) snoop on me, and under which specific circumstances"?
Techdirt has not posted any stories submitted by Alice.
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