Hanarchy Montanarchy wrote:GrumpyCatFace wrote:de officiis wrote:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ivacy.html
How's that for a fucking sleight-of-hand, when we're talking about the CIA's development of privacy-obliterating spying tools that are about as far away from in-court testimony that one can imagine. Shill.
EDIT: Waiminnit. Did he mean "any one of us" as in the intelligence community? Implying that they're listening to all of these conversations?
I think he is saying that, since a judge can compel you to testify about private communication, it means you don't have absolute right to privacy everywhere... so it follows you don't really have any right to privacy anywhere as far as he is concerned.
It is some air tight thinking, and very comforting, as I can not be sufficiently protected by somebody who isn't watching me constantly.
I don't think so. He used those 3 examples for a reason - they're the only legally-protected private conversations.
Attorney-client privilege, spouse can't be compelled to testify, and freedom of religion. Also, he's speaking to a conference of digital spies. The laws on those things haven't changed.
He's saying that those protections don't matter anymore because the Feds can listen in, use it in court,
and that's a good thing. The judge can compel the
spies to testify on those conversations.
Your attorney, priest, and spouse won't be forced to betray you - they don't have to. The Listeners aren't technically barred from using what they hear against you in court.
We are very literally now living in a police state. It's no longer hyperbole.