[athenot]

Ultimately, enforcing agencies want privacy for themselves and transparency for everyone else. At the scale and speed of digital services, this asymmetry can go down very fast towards an authoritarian path.

There can only be 2 solutions:

- enshrine a right to privacy. Individuals should have a way to communicate in a way that is completely secure and free of evesdropping because they are believed to be innocent until proven guilty. Likewise, enforcement agencies should be granted the same to do their work.

- adopt symmetric transparency. Individuals will then be allowed to follow the intimate communications of any leaders or enforcement agencies, with the same level of ease. So if you want me to have to file a FOI to get info about an official, an equally difficult/time-consuming process should exist the other way around. OR if you want an officer to be able to monitor any individual in real time, then I should be able to monitor any officer in real time.

That second case should be automatic anytime the "nothing to hide" argument is invoked.