Posted on 09/06/2015 4:56:42 PM PDT by dayglored
Children are being raped, citizens murdered, and lost souls trafficked for sex and the police can't do anything about it thanks to Apple and Google, senior government lawyers and a top cop have claimed.
In an op-ed in The New York Times, Manhattan district attorney Cyrus Vance Jr; Adrian Leppard, commissioner of the City of London Police; Paris' chief prosecutor François Molins; and Javier Zaragoza, chief prosecutor of the High Court of Spain, said that the current situation is unsupportable and legal changes are needed to keep the public safe.
"The new encryption policies of Apple and Google have made it harder to protect people from crime," they wrote.
"We support the privacy rights of individuals. But in the absence of cooperation from Apple and Google, regulators and lawmakers in our nations must now find an appropriate balance between the marginal benefits of full-disk encryption and the need for local law enforcement to solve and prosecute crimes."
The quartet of inquisitors cited an investigation into a murder case that was getting nowhere because police couldn't unlock the victim's phone, cases in New York involving child abuse and sex trafficking that are being stymied by the privacy systems Apple and Google run, and pointed out that the Charlie Hebdo case in France where cellphone data was vital to tracking down the terrorists.
(Excerpt) Read more at theregister.co.uk ...
Yeah, right, they want to take away our encryption because they're thinking about the children. Uh-huh...
Possible ping list interest....
“The new encryption policies of Apple and Google have made it harder to protect people from crime,”
Which means we want to read all your stuff to look for a crime.
The reason the government does not want us to be able to communicate in private is because they know that sooner or later, we will be trying to oust these communist/socialist usurpers.
When encryption is outlawed, only outlaws will have encryption.
Just like “gun control”.
Government is there to prosecute crimes.... under rules established hundreds of years ago.
Stick with what is authorized, government. Don't over-reach.
Some may get away with it, but that how it plays out.
Better that 10 guilty go free than one be falsely convicted.
/johnny
Meanwhile, they are cracking skulls of babies at PP.
The authorities have lost the trust of the people. Had more competence and honesty been displayed in recent years, people would be more amenable to allowing govt. backdoors. The problem is that we can’t trust these guys to only use the backdoors in situations like the article brings up.
Children are being raped, citizens murdered, and lost souls trafficked for sex thanks to the feckless Barack Obama whose policies have made it all possible.
Translation: We can’t spy on Tea Partiers.
We The People have not granted any level of government blanket ability to read our correspondence or listen to our conversations. We The People have reserved privacy of our communications to ourselves.
We The People have granted various levels of government investigatory powers pursuant to a valid warrant. And those powers are adequate.
Government is the problem here. It’s that simple.
When a government announces it want to doing something “for the children”, it means its intentions are nefarious.
Made it hard to track your income and spending habits.THAT’S what they worry about,that dollars might slip through their grasp.Kids getting raped-they couldn’t give two sh-ts about that.
I couldn’t make myself read the whole article, I as my son would say when he was three “can’t want to!” But did they manage to work guntrol in there too?
Great to see you online Johnny. How ya doin'? You're still in my prayers.
Yep, 'zactly.
Every time I hear one of these "Can't we please ignore that pesky Constitution??? It's for the cheeeeeelrunn, after all" schemes, I don't get it. Do they not think there were children in Colonial times? Apparently THOSE children weren't so fragile as to require unfettered government for survival. Why would I want to save such genetic mistakes anyway? They'd probably vote Democrat and spawn a new generation requiring erasure of whatever still exists of the Constitution by then. I really don't see the upside. Seems like we should just grieve for them and get busy replacing them, not repeal the Constitution.
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