With the Australian Labor Party caving in on the proposed encryption law that will allow Australian police and agencies to access private data directly from vendors, the new proposed laws are now agreed in principle to introduce government level snooping of user messages and encrypted files. Agencies like ASIO or the Australian Federal Police will have the ability to request that telecommunications and tech companies help them with their investigations and compel companies to build ways to allow targeted access to encrypted communications data.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by Blymie on Friday December 07 2018, @12:31AM
Thing is, at each slow step of encroachment -- this is what happens. Each "little thing" is never quite enough to make a sane man pick up a gun, and just shoot and kill every authority figure around him.
Amusing. I'm Canadian, and took very much the same tact. Here though, debit cards have 'been a thing' for 30 years. Everyone uses them instead of cash, and while the government doesn't have transactional history, well... let's say I know ways that the data gets out, regardless of the fact.
But I use it for grocery shopping, gas. I use cash for almost everything else. I leave a 'trail', when I legitimately don't care.
But my phone? Not linked to me name, never on at home (wifi or 4G), only paid for it by cash, pay for top-up minutes by cash, only paid for google play by cash cards + adding, don't use google for addresses/etc, fake name, etc.
So the phone doesn't link to me in any way. I don't even give out the phone number, because once someone has your number? You can easily be tracked by a variety of means.
(I have VOIP forward to my cell phone, and give out the VOIP number)
I find this fascinating. You've not fought anyone with a gun, not used physical force to change things, yet you act/talk as if you have.
Frankly, I doubt you've done as much as I have. Note.. I certainly admit that you do more than 99.9999% of people out there.
But I'm not doubtful of Americans. I just know history, and what I've seen. Most Americans don't care. They just don't. That's not doubt, that's fact.
Prove to me that Americans care. No one cares, dude. Just you and me, and a few others.
I mean -- you also have to know history, to know *why* you should care. You need to be well read, to know why you should care.
Most people aren't that.
It's like any other problem today. People will only care, when it directly, immediately, effects them. I mean *care*, not hit the like button on a Facebook post, or complain on Reddit. But *care*.