<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">No, Ben, I really do not know our privacy laws. I know that for some things (and I don't know what) a judge has to agree to let the police dig into your life. A warrant.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Millions of cops. A few bad eggs. Many problems: we don't screen them enough at all; we don't pay them enough at all. We present being a cop as a military police type of thing. Wrong attitude. Many cops are from the lower classes and there is where you get more racism. So many weapons the cops are afraid and angry before they even get to a crime scene. So that leads to irrational overreacting.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Many cops have been kicked off the force, indicted,and put in prison. It is a shame that so much bad cop behavior happens, but we don't tend to tolerate it. Body cameras on cops have been really helpful. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jul 2, 2023 at 4:14 PM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 02/07/2023 19:00, bill w wrote:<br>
> Does being arrested let the police dig into your smartphone, PC, <br>
> online media, etc.? If we don't have privacy laws covering some of <br>
> this, we need them. bill w<br>
<br>
Bill, you live in the USA, you should know that being arrested lets the <br>
police do anything they damn well please, up to and including murder.<br>
<br>
But you don't have to be arrested for various government bodies to dig <br>
into any information at all. Privacy laws are irrelevant. if Edward <br>
Snowden et. al. did nothing else, they proved that.<br>
<br>
Ben<br>
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