[In the Drunk Tank]

Originally Posted by Livia

It's hardly the same thing as having a camera in everyone's house. I was referring only to this instance. They won't be rounding up random people and looking at their phone. They're welcome to look at mine, it'd bore the bits off 'em.

I'm not saying it but you could use that principle to justify almost any invasion of privacy could you not? It's what they said with ID cards, it's what they said with CCTV cameras, it's what they said with closer Internet monitoring etc etc. You can still be uncomfortable about the authorities having access to your private life without that meaning you must have something illegal to hide

[Omah]

Originally Posted by MTVN

I'm not saying it but you could use that principle to justify almost any invasion of privacy could you not? It's what they said with ID cards, it's what they said with CCTV cameras, it's what they said with closer Internet monitoring etc etc. You can still be uncomfortable about the authorities having access to your private life without that meaning you must have something illegal to hide

Yeah, exactly - it's yet another encroachment on personal privacy and civil liberty .....