[jamestimmins]

By this point, we should assume that all companies with sensitive data that could theoretically help solve crime will be accessed by the government as a rule.

That's just being a realistic technology user in 2025.

[dmix]

The only real solution is strong privacy laws around gov usage and strong courts willing to enforce it. Expecting consumer choice or regulations to prevent that data from ever existing is mostly a fools errand IMO, there's just too much of it and it's everywhere.

[deelowe]

> The only real solution is strong privacy laws around gov usage and strong courts willing to enforce it.

I don't think this is a solution, personally.

[lotsoweiners]

I’d prefer to see a solution provided by technology that negates surveillance. Could be a very lucrative industry to start selling Bond style tech to the masses.

[bdangubic]

any solution that has “law” in it is 100% not a solution

[anigbrowl]

Based on what? There's no constitutional right to privacy, while courts have consistently expanded the scope of government powers and immunities and consistently hollowed out the Bill of Rights. It's gonna require a new legal paradigm.

[ErigmolCt]

At this point, it's not if the data gets accessed, it's when and how quietly it happens