Its no wonder we are skeptical/nervous about “lawful access”
Further to yesterday’s post about lawful access policy input (or lack thereof), here are 2 examples of why this kind of thing makes us skeptical about the need and concerned about the dangerous privacy implications.
First, there are reports that the US Director of National Intelligence recently testified that its warrantless evesdropping prevented a recent terrorist plot. Turns out it had nothing to do with it.
Read a Boing Boing report about that
Second, Outlaw.com reports on a judicial suggestion in the UK to put the entire population into a DNA database.
