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They have the right to privacy when they are following the law. On the other hand, if police enforcement have a legal warrant to read internal documents about how you run your business, to prevent employees from being exploited, they absolute should get access to it.

I understand having a process in place to be able to hide data from criminals stealing your data, that's not a problem. The problem becomes when companies start to hide data from legal requests, which is what Uber is in the hot for here.



If they have a warrant they can ask the company to decrypt it.

Surely you're not advocating that every company should have to turn over all of its information without a warrant


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That means everyone should just stop complying to lawful warrants? Or that laws in general don't work? Or that you'd rather have companies maintaining laws? We can pick & chose what laws to follow?

I'm not sure I understand the reasoning nor conclusion of your comment.


Yes. Yes. That is the status quo. That is the status quo.




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