A New Bill Would Force Tech Companies to Report Their Users for Drugs
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The Cooper Davis Act would force tech companies to report suspected drug activity to the government. Experts say it would be a disaster for digital privacy.

The Cooper Davis Act would force tech companies to report suspected drug activity to the government. Experts say it would be a disaster for digital privacy.

    • stanleytweedle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      1 year ago

      You also said

      Necessary evil. Go too far in the human rights narrative and society crumbles.

      in response to

      And is it important enough to encroach on individual rights like privacy and due process?

    • LemmyNameMyself@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      You didn’t say it, yes. But established survaillance can be countered by encrypted messanging apps, so the next logical step is to ban them. In fact, the US has been trying to do so for a long time now and the same excuse is always given - “think of the children”. There’s a video by Louis Rossmann and another one by Mental Outlaw, both going into detail about why this is just that, an excuse. Survaillance isn’t normal and should not be normalised.

        • LemmyNameMyself@lemmy.worldEnglish
          7·
          1 year ago

          Every country has survaillance, US just makes the most noise with laws being passed. It’s the principle that matters - once other countries see that a certain law allows them to monitor people more closely, they’ll want to pass their version of that law. Australia is basically a Police State, UK also has very privacy-invasive laws.