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from the can't-they-find-a-new-excuse-to-steal-my-rights dept.
You have too many rights, so it's time for a little rebalancing:
Internet anonymity should be banned and everyone required to carry the equivalent of a license plate when driving around online. That's according to Erik Barnett, the US Department of Homeland Security's attaché to the European Union.
Writing in French policy magazine FIC Observatoire, Barnett somewhat predictably relies on the existence of child abuse images to explain why everyone in the world should be easily monitored. He tells a story about how a Romanian man offered to share sexually explicit images of his daughter with an American man over email. The unnamed email provider uncovered this exchange and forwarded the IP address of the Romanian to the European authorities and a few days later the man was arrested. Job well done.
Before we have an opportunity to celebrate, however, Barnett jumps straight to terrorism. "How much of the potential jihadists' data should intelligence agencies or law enforcement be able to examine to protect citizenry from terrorist attack?", he poses. The answer, of course, is everything. Then the pitch: "As the use of technology by human beings grows and we look at ethical and philosophical questions surrounding ownership of data and privacy interests, we must start to ask how much of the user's data is fair game for law enforcement to protect children from sexual abuse?"
(Score: 3, Insightful) by captain normal on Monday February 01 2016, @05:40AM
Speaking of Benjamin Franklin, Silence Dogood could have been considered a threat to the ruling class. Which indeed did turn out to be true 45~50 years later. Anonymity is a great American and British tradition and should not be messed with by those who would force their power upon the people.
"It is easier to fool someone than it is to convince them that they have been fooled" Mark Twain
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 01 2016, @07:28AM
If it's to protect the interests of cunt women, men's liberties go right out the window.
Women ARE society.
Men are just dogs.
We used to marry girl children.
Now for even liking young girls it's prison.