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DOJ Launches New Cybercrime Unit, Claims Privacy Top Priority
msm1267 writes: Leslie Caldwell, assistant attorney general in the criminal division of the Department of Justice, announced on Thursday the creation of a new Cybercrime Unit, tasked with enhancing public-private security efforts. A large part of the Cybersecurity Unit's mission will be to quell the growing distrust many Americans have toward law enforcement's high-tech investigative techniques. (Even if that lack of trust, as Caldwell claimed, is based largely on misinformation about the technical abilities of the law enforcement tools and the manners in which they are used.) "In fact, almost every decision we make during an investigation requires us to weigh the effect on privacy and civil liberties, and we take that responsibility seriously," Caldwell said. "Privacy concerns are not just tacked onto our investigations, they are baked in."
You stop throwing the 'T' word around at companies/people for doing things like encrypting our handheld devices.
--- Mercutio was right.
If you read carefully, you'll see that nowhere does Caldwell mention increasing privacy. Just that it counts as a top priority.
"Privacy concerns are not just tacked onto our investigations, they are baked in" makes perfect sense, and doesn't at all contradict the idea that the FBI wants backdoors into everything, or that the NSA already has them. The fact that they want backdoors is a valid privacy concern: How can they most efficiently strip the public of it.
Amazing what you can say without lying, when you carefully pick your choice of words.
Whats so funny? Of course Privacy is their top priority.... they always want to seek out and destroy it wherever they find it. Its enemy #1
"I opened my eyes, and everything went dark again"
Reagan famously reminded Gorbachev of the old Russian proverb, "Trust but verify." Here's a corollary for the modern age: "Trust but encrypt."
what's so funny?
they will totally protect the privacy of the people that are part of this 'cybercrime' unit. everyone else's, not so much.
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