Comment by rootusrootus
2 years ago
Being prohibited from disclosure does not in any way refute their promise to refuse. It would make it hard to prove one way or the other, but that is not the same problem.
2 years ago
Being prohibited from disclosure does not in any way refute their promise to refuse. It would make it hard to prove one way or the other, but that is not the same problem.
But if they fail in their refusal, we would not know. So you have to treat it as if they have already failed and plan accordingly.
This is really the conclusion of the debate over whether privacy protections should be legal or technological.
The answer is both, which in particular means that they have to be technological. We need to prove their inability to defect with math because otherwise they can just lie about it.
What you need from the law is the right for everybody to use that kind of technology by default.
Comment of the year (decade?), cannot upvote enough.