The Golden Age of Surveillance
Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
Complicated? Yes.
The struggle between the American FBI and Apple intensifies as a new court date approaches [March 22nd]
The words of Louis Brandeis, an American Supreme Court Judge are worthy of note.
The quote above [from a wiretapping case] Olmstead v. United States, 277 U.S. 438, 479 (1928) is perhaps more relevant today than ever.
Ironically, the last sentence is one of many quotations inscribed on Cox Corridor II, a first floor House corridor, U.S. Capitol.
Links
- Louis Dembitz Brandeis
- The Right to Privacy
- Inside Apple CEO Tim Cook’s Fight With the FBI [ Time ]
- Apple’s Brief Hits the FBI With a Withering Fact Check [ Wired ]
