RFC 7258

Posted May 14, 2014 9:17 UTC (Wed) by Seegras (guest, #20463)
In reply to: RFC 7258 by raven667
Parent article: RFC 7258

As long as certain governments ignore their own constitution, which might say something like this:

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

which explicitly forbids wholesale surveillance of all _people_ (note that this does not say "citizens", this really means all people); we can only conclude that these laws and regulations are useless, and those criminal organizations and governments will go on with their pervasive monitoring.

RFC 7258

Posted May 14, 2014 14:04 UTC (Wed) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198) [Link]

The US Constitution is just a piece of paper without people who believe in what it describes and enforce that standard of behavior. No law is worth anything without a credible threat of enforcement.