Concerns about the erosion of privacy and the potential for mandatory surveillance systems due to technological advancements

Signals over time

3 observed signals across 1 sources, tracked for 1 days. Confidence: low.

What people are saying Observed

• “Step 1 is making back doors mandatory. Step 2 is banning anything they can't decrypt. I don't know if the second part has been discussed yet, but it's only possible with the former in place, so it makes sense to just ram that in first. Most people don't care about this at all because they cannot fathom what it actually means. It takes the government actually turning on you to understand at a visceral level and by then it's too late. It seems there have still not been enough historical examples of this to truly burn it into memory.”

  Hacker News · frustration

• “> This comment could not have been more stereotypically American. Of course. As I noted before, dripping in European condescension. Nothing you can actually point to, just condescension from a region that has been left behind over the past century. > Attacks on rule of law and civil liberties have increased, and the right to privacy is one of those liberties. It's of course not limited to Trump, he wasn't in office when Snowden showed the world the scale of American mass surveillance on domestic and foreign citizens. Which right or in what way has the right to privacy been attacked? Fully agree with you on attacks on rule of law. And I find Trump incredibly dangerous. But I do not think privacy in the US today has suffered. Please educate me. > I'm totally unsure what you are attempting to imply. That mass surveillance by the American state stopped at some point in the last 10 years? I am not implying anything. The Freedom Act curtailed a bunch of activities. You are implying nothing has changed. All of the Snowden revelations implicated many European countries: intelligence agencies spying on each others populations. I am asking you if you believe nothing h”

  Hacker News · question

• “It looks inevitable to me. Technological ability ushers in the new social realities. The industrial revolution turned around how we live, intelligence on tap being able to interpret everything in real time is indeed leading down to the total surveillance state direction. I don't see anything that may stop it. You will have to run constant real-time surveillance systems on all your devices and anything that doesn't run those will be illegal, with secureboot on steroids. Due to the convenience benefits, people will willingly give access to cloud-based AI services to all their information, all their plans and documents and calendar and email and everything. And you blink twice and it all becomes mandatory, and you will be an extremist if you don't want that, because why would you have anything to hide? "Just follow the law, follow the rules, and you'll be fine", that will be the slogan. Stories like this article have zero effect on normal people. They see a crime being prevented, which is good. You have to bring a story where a sympathetic character is getting the short end of the stick somehow.”

  Hacker News · frustration