alt Hacker NewsAgain, I'm no expert, but I do believe the law would be what would stop you. It could be poorly written, but then we should just rewrite it.
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shakna • 08/01/2025
Police, in many countries, have already been found to violate the laws protecting surveillance systems that already exist.
If a warrant doesn't stop them today, why do you think it will tomorrow?
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I don't quite understand your position. The intelligence community has shown time and again that they are happy to be innovative (and secretive) with interpretations of the law that enable them access to vast swaths of U.S. persons data without a warrant.
This is recent history, too. With the NSA interpreting the addition of the word "relevant" in Section 215 of the Patriot Act to mean "indefinite bulk collection of records on every U.S. citizen".
Where do you get your confidence from? The confidence that there will be robust public debate before an encroachment on the exploitation of data already collected on a country's citizens?
Do you believe this sort of bulk seizure and screening of the data of a country's citizens to be limited to the U.S.?