>If you want our data, get a judge to order a search warrant. Otherwise it is Unconstitutional.
This is my position and nothing will move me from it because it is the principled position. Moreover, the advocates of mass surveillance fail to realize that even if their motives are as pure as the driven snow nevertheless a mass surveillance system will attract sociopaths and psychopaths who survive by preying on other human beings instead of creating value and trade. This is exactly why we have a Constitution to limit the powers of government.
I fear a Police State where it is basically an 1984 type of society. Instead of TV sets watching us, it is our smart phones. The only thing protecting us from the Thought Police is the fact that our smart phones are encrypted so that we can have privacy. Take away that encryption and let the Police or anyone else have access to anyone's smart phone and there is no privacy and you can be arrested for stuff you didn't do but might because some machine learning algorithm says you might commit a crime. Sort of like the Minority Report TV show were they stopped using precogs and went to a Hawkeye program that uses ML to tell if someone is going to do a crime and has access to everything in the public to tell.
This is my position and nothing will move me from it because it is the principled position. Moreover, the advocates of mass surveillance fail to realize that even if their motives are as pure as the driven snow nevertheless a mass surveillance system will attract sociopaths and psychopaths who survive by preying on other human beings instead of creating value and trade. This is exactly why we have a Constitution to limit the powers of government.