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by paxys 474 days ago
Whether the data is encrypted or not, they still need a warrant.
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Those warrants are secret. We don't even know if they're following the rules they lay out.

In the US, the secret FISA court hasn't turned down a single warrant. Either the government is only coming to them with completely justified cases or they're just a rubber stamp. Either way, there's no oversight so we have no way of knowing.

For now. Once the means are there it's only a matter of time until everything is scanned automatically.