Sub_Umbra
Flashlight Enthusiast
My problem is this: Have any laws been enacted that explicitly protect your conversation over fiber optics? Secondly: Will they ever do it? If you look at advances in communications technology in the last 60 years a pattern becomes obvious. Legislators don't have to change the Constitution or repeal any laws to take away all of our private communications. They may simply write impotent laws long after new technologies are implemented, or more often that not, just completely ignore the new technology's potential negative impacts on our privacy alltogether.Fortunately many of those old microwave links are going dark and being replaced by fiber. I personally know of some that have been decommissioned in this area in favor of fiber.
Who says an old snake can't learn new tricks? Inspite of the decades old microwave problem mentioned above, no laws were ever passed that would give that portion of our phone calls the same level of protection and penalties that they gave to the older, hard-wired parts of the system. The parts that are old enough that they came from a time when legislators had something other than contempt for the citizens. Before they came to the conclusion that the people are just a danger to the public.
They're certainly smart enough to never make the mistake they feel they made with snail mail by messing up email with the same type of protections for the individual that they foolishly granted years ago when the individual was more important in our society.
I know that some would say that you can just use crypto but without getting partisan we have had an administration not that long ago that did it's best to take that tool right out of our hands. IMO no party is above that.
Until I see anything that looks different than what I've seen in the last 40 years I'm going to expect no privacy rights for business or the individual in any new technology implementation coming down the road.
The old protections built into snail mail and the original hard-wired phone system are remnants of a world that no longer exists. All that the legislators have to do is nothing. They can do that.
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