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If your on a government officials bad list, then all you said applies. Deserved or otherwise.

Being placed on list is still a fight.

Give politicians free reign to everyone’s browser history/social media account, well Suddenly a lot of people are on a bad list.

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I'm in favor of the Black Mirror approach for politicians; Give the people full transparency into politicians' activities. This shouldn't be so controversial, given that they work for us, but of course, that is when you would see some real concern for privacy!

> This shouldn't be so controversial, given that they work for us,

Pretty suspect line of reasoning when you apply it to literally any other scenario.

Sure, if you compare it to scenarios that aren't remotely the same. I think we were supposed to take it as an obvious given that this applies to scenarios where the side giving away the power is watching the side that was given the power.

Well, not everyone. The politicians themselves will have everything encrypted because they'll call it CUI.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_Unclassified_Inform...

Where I work "CUI" is just the header we slap on all of our PowerPoints on NIPR[1], and basically means "don't email this to your civilian email account, or otherwise share it with people outside of work"...but it's still feasible, from a technical standpoint. It's just wrong from an administrative policy perspective. CUI doesn't automatically entail/require encryption. Most people don't even bother to encrypt their emails in Outlook even when chock-full of CUI documents, or worse, high-impact PII/PHI.

If politicians want encrypted comms they'll probably have a //SECRET Blackberry or iPhone.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIPRNet

Years ago I worked on a Special Access project. Everything that got thrown away went into the burn barrels, whether it had a classified label or not. Of course, when California took away our license to burn stuff, we acquired a grinder type shredder.

That is just an easy general policy to adopt, secret project or not. At this point I would call it as basic as using HTTPS, just a general good practice.

Shredder on Grinder?

I’m going to burn for that one :)

> Give politicians free reign to everyone’s browser history/social media account

I'd argue that this is the core issue: everyone is on a list now. Where did the presumption of innocence go?

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