Increasingly More Common Gag Orders Show Necessity Of Minimal Data Collection By Companies

[Lucian Armasu]

After receiving its first gag order, Open Whisper Systems enrolled ACLU to help it fight against what it believed was an overly broad secret order. The two got the U.S. government to quickly unseal most of the information covered by the gag order.

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[Clamyboy74]

What kind of sicko does this? I feel less and less secure the more I hear about this

 

[ahnilated]

This type of stuff has been going on for many years.

 

[nutjob2]

It's a great time to be a criminal or a terrorist. Paranoid and delusional millennials in a panic about the NSA reading their emails to grandma are giving them free reign.

 

[negusp]

"It's a great time to be a criminal or a terrorist. Paranoid and delusional millennials in a panic about the NSA reading their emails to grandma are giving them free reign."

It's people like you that destroy our freedom. What's next after email reading? Camera's in our house? Oh wait, our phones are already being monitored.

 

[targetdrone]

It's a great time to be a criminal or a terrorist.

Well terrorists and criminals have a huge supporter and ally working in the Oval Office.

 

[dragget]

It's a great time to be a criminal or a terrorist.

Well terrorists and criminals have a huge supporter and ally working in the Oval Office.

Nice conspiracy theory there, pal. This has nothing to do with presidential policy and everything to do with a corrupt, repressive justice system making a policy of violating our constitutional rights with their litigious overreach. Nice to hear that at least a few companies and private citizens are standing up to these bullying bureaucrats.

 

[Kimonajane]

The fascist FED is so corrupt now it does not stand for freedom anymore. Its more like a soft police state/tyranny but they kept many of their dirty Unconstitutional deeds hidden, some in plain sight.

 

[chicofehr]

Why would Facebook and Google encrypt their data so they can't get full access to it? They rely on stealing and harvesting your data as their business model.

 

[bit_user]

It's a great time to be a criminal or a terrorist. Paranoid and delusional millennials in a panic about the NSA reading their emails to grandma are giving them free reign.

Don't you understand why the 4th Amendment was created? Universal surveillance hurts democracy. I doubt any US government agency will be interested in me, personally, but what about whistleblowers and candidates in opposition parties? It's this indirect harm that I fear.

Have you never heard of Watergate? If Nixon were President today, his spying would probably never come to light, and he'd have been able to learn so much more. This is the real threat, IMO.

Why would Facebook and Google encrypt their data so they can't get full access to it? They rely on stealing and harvesting your data as their business model.

Read more carefully:

OWS recently helped companies such as WhatsApp, Facebook, Silent Circle, and Google implement its open source end-to-end encryption protocol into their own chat applications.