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Last week FBI Director James Comey at the Boston College conference on cybersecurity stated:
While that quote in the article is taken out of context, it is even more disturbing when taken in context. The included video puts the quote in context where Comey is arguing against widespread access to strong encryption with the public. There are other quotes included as well that are just as disturbing, such as:
Even our communications with our spouses, with our clergy members, with our attorneys are not absolutely private in America... ...In appropriate circumstances, a judge can compel any one of us to testify in court about those very private communications.
Is this the "adult conversation" on encryption he was getting ready for last year?
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FBI Director James Comey: "There is No Such Thing as Absolute Privacy in America"
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anal Pumpernickel on Friday March 17 2017, @12:14AM
The only ones treating our constitution like toilet paper are the Orange One and his clown cadre, oh and you of course.
The NSA is and has been (this certainly didn't start under Trump or even Obama, though they both support it) conducting unconstitutional mass surveillance on the populace. The TSA violates people's rights in airports. Border agents violate people's rights even if they are far away from the border. The federal government is waging an unconstitutional war on drugs (even for transactions that take place completely within a particular state), even though the Constitution does not grant them the power to do such a thing. The Unpatriotic Act permits all sorts of additional unconstitutional surveillance. Thug officers steal people's property without any due process and call it "civil forfeiture". We still have - in the 21st century - laws against obscenity, even though they blatantly conflict with the first amendment. The government issues NSLs to force people to remain silent about its (possibly unconstitutional) activities, which is yet another violation of the first amendment. There are countless more ways that the government violates the Constitution, and it's too tedious to list them.
Who could be so delusional as to think that the government is respecting the Constitution, or that it ever even did to begin with? It's not just Trump who is ignoring the highest law of the land.