12-19-2015, 09:37 PM
(12-19-2015, 08:43 PM)OdinYggd Wrote:(12-19-2015, 05:23 AM)Flarezerker Wrote: Wait a sec. Hold the fucking phones. Isn't it a basic human right to privacy?
It should be, but it isn't.
And way too many people are okay with their privacy being intruded into for it to ever become a basic human right.
Effectively, the majority seems to have just accepted that they aren't allowed any privacy. And because they all just accept it so willingly, these atrocities will only get worse instead of being outlawed.
Besides, when do criminals ever follow the law? Politicians are the worst criminals on the planet.
It is a human right according to many legal documents detailing it as such.
From the (possibly abridged? it's actually surprisingly legible) Universal Declaration of Human Rights, courtesy of amnesty.ca:
"No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honor and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks."
It's the arbitrary part that's the stickler. That was poorly worded and governments are probably using the "we have a system so it is not arbitrary" route to get out of it. Of course, the whole anti-terrorism/cybersecurity thing is probably a pretense just to get away with it, considering they're collecting far more data than is nessessary for finding out that kind of thing.
When arbitrary can also mean: "(of power or a ruling body) unrestrained and autocratic in the use of authority." Which also sounds a lot like what they're doing - abusing their authority to invade peoples' privacy for their own gain, and the gain of third parties.
Once again, this will be gladly missed by everyone, or counterargued with law-jitsu until everyone gives up, because that's what the government does. Abuse loopholes. Hell, that's exactly what they did with CISA, abused the fact the budget bill almost had to pass, and stuck it into the unrelated bill suddenly at the last moment, so they wouldn't have to discuss it and it would surely pass, unlike the previous attempts CISPA, SOPA, PIPA, etcetera.