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They could you know arrest the person and search the phone under suspicion, or get a court order. They don't need mass surveillance. Maybe they should do their job and actually investigate it, which they don't do.

You can always justify more infringements on personal liberties under the guise of stopping crime, protecting the children, stopping the terrorists. That doesn't mean we should.

What we shouldn't be doing is using resources to find people saying naughty words on facebook (which is literally what they do).

This was literally posted here like last week, I suggest you read it:

https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/04/11/encryption...



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