“You’re giving up your rights. Your rights matter because you never know when you’ll need them. People should be able to pick up the phone and call their family, should be able to send a text message to their loved one, buy a book online, without worrying how this could look to a government possibly years in the future. We have a right to privacy. Trusting anybody, any government authority with the entirety of human communications, in secret, without oversight, is simply too great a temptation to be ignored.”
— Edward Snowden
arstechnica.com: Snowden: Big revelations to come, reporting them is not a crime
I will add that this is a basic, fundamental right for all humans.
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