My comment stands. I mean I guess I'm probably crazy to think that anyone would ignore civil rights while advancing a new technology, fighting crime, or in the name of national security. That's just crazy talk, right?
"“We have great respect for the professionals at the FBI, and we believe their intentions are good,” Apple chief executive Tim Cook said in a strongly worded open letter posted late Tuesday on the company’s website.
“Up to this point, we have done everything that is both within our power and within the law to help them,” it continued. “But now the U.S. government has asked us for something we simply do not have, and something we consider too dangerous to create. They have asked us to build a backdoor to the iPhone.”"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...=.5fa7f1d82bcf
"Law enforcement agencies would face new restrictions on using no-knock warrants under legislation to be introduced in the Georgia House on Thursday.
The bill comes seven months after at 19-month-old was severely wounded when Habersham County sheriff’s deputies executed a no-knock warrant at 3 a.m. A flash stun grenade was tossed into the playpen where the child was sleeping."
https://www.ajc.com/news/state--regi...M910KnaFFDsiI/
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"While it contains provisions that we support, the American Civil Liberties Union believes that the USA PATRIOT Act gives the Attorney General and federal law enforcement unnecessary and permanent new powers to violate civil liberties that go far beyond the stated goal of fighting international terrorism. These new and unchecked powers could be used against American citizens who are not under criminal investigation, immigrants who are here within our borders legally, and also against those whose First Amendment activities are deemed to be threats to national security by the Attorney General."
Oct. 23, 2001 - American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)"
https://aclu.procon.org/view.answers...stionID=000716
...and so forth and so on.