As Law Enforcement works to expand its tool-box, the standing of one’s sacred and constitutionally-protected right of personal privacy becomes a relic in the post-constitutional age.
The false-argument suggesting that one surrenders their privacy once having entered the public-domain completely sets aside the fundamentals; the origins of the data and the fact that without that originating force the data would not exist. If patent law protects and preserves the “maker” of protected “property” then how is it that the same standard isn’t equally applicable to you? Conforming law to suit the demands of government, at the expense of individual liberties, has become the norm and the publics indifference to the occurrence is itself proof that government has won the re-education war.
We believe that the FBI vs. Apple event was merely a test-run, the sole purpose of which was to determine who or what group would stand in defense of Apple’s objections to being a forced-labor component of the State Security Apparatus. Oddly enough and on an issue that Congress should find of grave interest – were they at all interested in preserving the Fourth Amendment Rights of the American People – the FBI’s backing-off protects the esteemed Members of Congress from having to animate a response to the threat.
All that technology has done is to improve, on a global scale, the efficiency and facilities of intelligence gathering from pools of individual (personal) data stored on various servers positioned around the globe. There are negotiations presently underway with foreign governments that will allow cross-border access to these data pools, simultaneously erasing the proprietary right of an entity’s product and/or service and your presumption that your data is secure. All gone, at least for now, with barely a whimper!
To accept the Governments claim that the only way to counter a Terror Threat is to have unlimited access to private data ignores the obvious flaw in how and the manner in which security services have, in the post-intellectual digital age, adapted to threat assessments and analytical review of gathered intelligence. Where once it was the practice to seek out or expose a threat, thru human intelligence gathering connect-the-dot processes, they now rely primarily on data surveillance the consequence of which is that the relevance of the data (already having been collected) is only known once a terror event has occurred.
In simplest terms; we can confirm that someone wanted you dead once we affirm that the data supports that you are. Simply brilliant! Expanding Government Liberties while depriving the individual of their own is the truest form of Absolute Terror!
Curtis C. Greco, Founder
