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Obama at SXSW: ‘Absolutist view’ on digital privacy cannot prevail
The Washington Post ^ | March 11, 2016 | Mike Debonis

Posted on 03/12/2016 5:10:52 AM PST by John W

AUSTIN -- President Obama defended government efforts to preserve law enforcement access to digital devices Friday, telling a crowd that included many technology innovators that society cannot end up "fetishizing our phones above every other value."

Obama made his remarks during a keynote discussion at the yearly South by Southwest Interactive conference here, after being asked by Texas Tribune journalist Evan Smith to comment on the larger implications of the pending fight between the FBI and Apple over access to an iPhone used by one of the shooters in December's terrorist attack in San Bernardino.

"The question we now have to ask is," he added, "if technologically it is possible to make an impenetrable device or system, or the encryption is so strong that there is no key, there is no door at all, then how do we apprehend the child pornographer? How do we solve or disrupt a terrorist plot? What mechanism do we have available even to do simple things like tax enforcement? ... There has to be some concession to the need to be able to get into that information somehow."

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Japan; News/Current Events; US: California; US: District of Columbia; War on Terror
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1 posted on 03/12/2016 5:10:52 AM PST by John W
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To: John W

POS


2 posted on 03/12/2016 5:14:07 AM PST by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: John W

In other words, give up your digital privacy so Big Brother can take care of you. He’s here to help.


3 posted on 03/12/2016 5:14:35 AM PST by jsanders2001
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To: John W
> "The question we now have to ask is," he added, "if technologically it is possible to make an impenetrable device or system, or the encryption is so strong that there is no key, there is no door at all, then how do we apprehend the child pornographer?

That's rich coming from a gay Muslim man who supports pedophile homosexuals who prey on young boys and Muslims who marry young girls and rape them...

4 posted on 03/12/2016 5:17:51 AM PST by jsanders2001
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To: John W

Protection of secrets, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to encrypt information with private keys, shall not be infringed.

Yeah, I’m thinking it’s an absolute. The Founding Fathers would have enumerated it as such had they foreseen the government attempting to regulate “hard” encryption out of existence.


5 posted on 03/12/2016 5:18:09 AM PST by ctdonath2 ("Get the he11 out of my way." - John Galt)
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To: John W

It’s okay for hildabeast to have privacy to give away government top secret information from a private server for money. It’s okay for a woman to kill her child - privacy, you know. It’s not okay for a serf to keep any information private from the government.


6 posted on 03/12/2016 5:18:12 AM PST by rigelkentaurus
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To: John W

Is that the same Obama who grumped about giving up his BlackBerry upon taking office?


7 posted on 03/12/2016 5:21:23 AM PST by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends.)
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To: John W

I guess that is why they are called 0bama phones.....


8 posted on 03/12/2016 5:21:30 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: John W

Child Porn scaremongering! On cue!


9 posted on 03/12/2016 5:22:06 AM PST by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends.)
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To: relictele

“For the children.”


10 posted on 03/12/2016 5:24:29 AM PST by John W (Under One Year And Counting!)
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To: John W

The Founding Fathers did not fight for security but for freedom. As a part of the might British Empire they had all the safety and security they could dream of.


11 posted on 03/12/2016 5:27:00 AM PST by all the best
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Bitterly clinging to their iPhones and lattes...


12 posted on 03/12/2016 5:27:34 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

13 posted on 03/12/2016 5:39:05 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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If it isn’t absolute, then the amount of “non-absoluteness” is determined by government only. Which means there are no restrictions at all.


14 posted on 03/12/2016 5:39:30 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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"What mechanism do we have available even to do simple things like tax enforcement?"


15 posted on 03/12/2016 5:41:53 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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"We're going to take things away from you for your own good!"



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16 posted on 03/12/2016 5:45:36 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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"What mechanism do we have available even to do simple things like tax enforcement?

I have a question... How did we do all these things before we had cell phones? Have we forgotten real police work?

17 posted on 03/12/2016 5:48:35 AM PST by snowtigger (It ain't what you shoot, it's what you hit.)
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To: John W

Whenever someone says “The Constitution says that Congress shall not infringe on the right to bear arms” liberals say that those people are fetishizing guns and the second amendment.

Whenever someone says “The Constitution says that the right of the people to be secure against unreasonable searches shall not be violated” liberals say that those people are fetishizing their smartphones and the forth amendment.

But whenever a liberal says “it’s not in the Constitution, but unlimited abortion must be defended at all costs in all situations” they are a Constitutional scholar and their opinion can not be discussed or opposed.


18 posted on 03/12/2016 5:50:02 AM PST by Anitius Severinus Boethius (www.wilsonharpbooks.com - Sign up for my new release e-mail and get my first novel for free)
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius

Oh certainly they have a kitten when we ask if they might be, er, “fetishizing” abortion.


19 posted on 03/12/2016 5:51:21 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: John W

In other words; Give up your privacy, which was demanded when it was a woman’s “right” to an abortion, or queers right to “marry”.


20 posted on 03/12/2016 5:52:08 AM PST by snowtigger (It ain't what you shoot, it's what you hit.)
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