Courts consistently side with police officers and with the government when individual rights are violated while the Constitution of the United States itself has even been publicly described by the president as "Archaic" and "a bad thing for the country." The National Security Agency routinely and illegally collects emails and phone calls made by citizens who have done nothing wrong and the government even denies to Americans the right to travel to countries that it disapproves of, most recently Cuba.
The United States government does not recognize that citizens have a right to privacy.
Officials in the national security and intelligence agencies have reportedly become concerned that some new encryption systems being used for email traffic and telephones have impeded government monitoring of what information is being exchanged.
Under discussion was a proposal to go to Congress and to ask for a law either forbidding so-called end-to-end encryption or mandating a technological fix enabling the government to circumvent it.
From the law enforcement point of view, the alternative to a new law banning or requiring circumvention of the feature would be a major and sustained effort to enable government agencies to break the encryption, something that may not even be possible.
In the past, government snooping was enabled by some of the communications providers themselves, with companies like AT&T engineering in so-called "Backdoor" access to their servers and distribution centers, where messages could be read directly and phone calls recorded.
There is apparently little desire in Congress to take up the encryption issue, though the National Security Council, headed by John Bolton, clearly would like to empower government law enforcement and intelligence agencies by banning unbreakable encryption completely.
http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2019/july/11/the-death-of-privacy-government-fearmongers-to-read-your-mail/
The United States government does not recognize that citizens have a right to privacy.
Officials in the national security and intelligence agencies have reportedly become concerned that some new encryption systems being used for email traffic and telephones have impeded government monitoring of what information is being exchanged.
Under discussion was a proposal to go to Congress and to ask for a law either forbidding so-called end-to-end encryption or mandating a technological fix enabling the government to circumvent it.
From the law enforcement point of view, the alternative to a new law banning or requiring circumvention of the feature would be a major and sustained effort to enable government agencies to break the encryption, something that may not even be possible.
In the past, government snooping was enabled by some of the communications providers themselves, with companies like AT&T engineering in so-called "Backdoor" access to their servers and distribution centers, where messages could be read directly and phone calls recorded.
There is apparently little desire in Congress to take up the encryption issue, though the National Security Council, headed by John Bolton, clearly would like to empower government law enforcement and intelligence agencies by banning unbreakable encryption completely.
http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2019/july/11/the-death-of-privacy-government-fearmongers-to-read-your-mail/
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