Then one of the first things Trump and the Republicans in Congress did after the election was repeal the FCC's privacy rules :( https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/03/five-ways-cybersecurit...
Zero Democrats voted for the PATRIOT Act and continue to support dragnet surveillance and serve on their committees, and Edward Snowden wasn't a felon under the Obama Administration.
http://educate-yourself.org/cn/patriotact20012006senatevote....
https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/recips.php?id=D000000461&ch...
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Oh, shit. It's almost like both parties are bought and paid for... which is why even when a Democrat is the President, Wall Street never actually goes to jail for destroying the economy, unprecedented tracking and harassment of journalists, and gleefully continues (and increases!) smuggling guns into Mexican drug cartel hands which were used for an incalculable amount of murders (including one confirmed US border patrol agent). All we need to end all these evil acts... is more Democrats. Then everything will be fine.
Except it wasn't. They told us things would change, smiled, and then kept on with business as usual and corporations getting even more power. He said he'd close Guantanamo, but didn't even to bother telling us there was one (we didn't even know about yet) in Chicago. ("Chicago black site.") He decried the Iraq war, and then started a few of his own. He ran on a platform of government transparency and then oversaw the largest expansion of classified documents in the history of the USA. (Google it.)
So forgive me, as someone who watches the news, that I'm not getting my hopes up that simply electing another Democrat (instead of enacting broad, sweeping a changes to the foundations of the system) will somehow save us and undo all the bad aspects of our country.
Jimmy Carter was right when he said "The USA is now an oligarchy with unlimited political bribery power."
https://www.ecowatch.com/jimmy-carter-the-u-s-is-an-oligarch...
But you can be forgiven for not knowing about this story, because a simple Google will review that NONE of the MSM outlets actually covered it. You know, because what's "news" about an ex-president saying "the entire system is corrupt." Surely, Pokemon and thigh-gaps are more important to the political discussion.
(not a country of course, but somewhere privacy is a constitutional right. question then is how a state can protect this right)
Not saying that a right to privacy doesn't exist. I think it exists because a combination of other rights DO exist. But rights can't obligate others, and if your information ends up in the public sphere, I don't believe you have a natural right to have it taken down.
If you contracted with a third party, and as part of that exchange, your info was supposed to be secured, you have a right to secure damages within the scope of that contract.
It's obviously not workable, though; you can see that the goal listed before "privacy" which all Californians have the legal right to obtain is "happiness". This would appear to imply that you have the same legal rights against someone who violates your privacy as against someone who makes you unhappy.
http://www.theonion.com/article/proposed-bill-would-bring-40...
> The bill, H.R. 702, stipulates that immediately upon its passage into law, the 4,000 brave soldiers who have lost their lives in Iraq come marching triumphantly over the horizon, directly into the arms of their loved ones, looking the same as they did on the day they left home.
[1] https://www.wileyrein.com/practices-federal-preemption.html [2] http://sblog.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/11-...
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_8_of_the_European_Conv...
And the sky hasn't fallen, my service is quite good and the telcos are still making profits.
Thing is,the US Constitution as brilliant as it is was written a long time ago and nobody wants to update it. And Capitol Hill seems preoccupied.
Yeah, nice theory :)
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I wouldn't worry/care about individual hackers, but even if you have complete trust in everyone who has or will have legal access there are a lot of organizations for which hacking cameras one-by-one (even if hacking is actually needed) is well worth the effort.
I know your idea is the same as that of the USA law, but that really doesn't make it right
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 12
> No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.
The "correct" way is, if a black man knocks up a guy's white daugher, he puts her on a plane to a state where abortion is legal. But in his own state, he fights for it to be illegal, so all the poor people have to have babies, and stay poor. Because classism is good. It makes sure some products can only be afforded by some people. Better people. And better people have more money, and buy more and better things.
Free market means being free to pay as little as absolutely possible for labor. And for that you need a lot of poor people. Everyone becoming wealthy is bad for better people. What's the point of being better if you can't be wealthier than most other people?
And if you think a white wealthy GOP dad won't overnight their daughter to a state to get an abortion, especially when it's from a brown dad, then you're ignorant to the point of cultural blindness.