Comment by GrinningFool

5 hours ago

Right now, we are pretty much guaranteed that they can access the data. As opposed to no guarantees that they can't.

I'm not clear the point of your post. Is it to say that what we had before is not guaranteed safe, so let's do this worse centralized thing because reasons?

The Netherlands situation is not a legal (nor political) possibility in the US. US police is extremely decentralized compared to other nations

Settling for some minor reforms is not the answer to the US's exploding surveillance state problem