Comment by hnarn

5 hours ago

You can’t seriously be proposing that the United States respects the privacy of its citizens more.

We have constitutional barriers that would obstruct something like this.

  • There are also constitutional barriers to lie under oath, e.g. about spying and collecting data on US citizens, but those barriers seem very ineffective (I'm talking about the 2013 congressional hearing involving James Clapper).

    I see no clear indicator that the situation has improved since.

  • As a US citizen, I have to say that you are completely mistaken. The US is a privacy hellscape.

    • Last I checked the US isn't trying to force legal backdoors into encryption which puts it firmly above the EU.

      Source: US citizen which gives me special knowledge

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