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by kube-system 425 days ago
Generally the set of people who are relevant in the debate of the balance of privacy rights and criminal prosecution, are living.

Dead people are distinctly immune to prosecution, and generally granted fewer rights.

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If you intended to reply to a different thread and accidentally ended up here instead, there is truth to what you say, but it has nothing to do with this one.

As it pertains to this thread, where the sole key holder is dead and took the knowledge with him, how do you anticipate to carry out gaining access to the data using live attacks? There are plenty of reasons why the government wants access to data even where prosecution isn't necessary.

The overlap between data that was never shared and data that is relevant after the person was dead is excruciatingly small.
It is excruciatingly small in all cases, which is why laws haven't been crafted yet. But if that changes...