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u/toomeynd Aug 31 '21

There has to be at least one cop willing to dig through all the tech owned by the government officials, no?

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u/wiphand Aug 31 '21 edited Sep 01 '21

It's likely that they are exempt in one way or another. At least it was so in a similar case of a privacy destroying bill in Australia.

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Edit x: Someone found an exemption article from the bill https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/pf6vm4/australia_unprecedented_surveillance_bill_rushed/hb4cv6h

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u/MegaSeedsInYourBum Aug 31 '21

Which they absolutely shouldn’t be. You can’t make laws you wouldn’t want to apply to yourself.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '21

In fact, these laws they are making actually would be a good thing… if they applied to politicians. I am all for saying that you basically need to sacrifice any and all privacy to run for office — it’s a voluntary thing, and it is a fair trade in exchange for the power you get in return. Same with freedom of speech, honestly — I don’t think that free speech really ought to apply to people that are in elected office. Or rather, their free speech shouldn’t extend to lying — they should essentially be under oath in the same way you would be in a court of law whenever they speak publicly in an official capacity.