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Comment Re:Insane ruling by troglodyte judges (Score 1) 126

Stored data is physical evidence.
Passwords are different because they're in your head. They're something you can know (and forget).
Only constitutional protections against unreasonable search and seizure protect you from access to physical data.

5th amendment protects against compelled confession. It does not protect you from the collection of physical evidence, including your biometrics (or even your blood in the case of DUIs and such)

Comment Re:Insane ruling by troglodyte judges (Score 1) 126

Actually it does. That's why government is required to get a warrant when performing a search.

The warrant is because you are protected against unreasonably search and seizure. Has nothing to do with self-incrimination.

The issue today is, with mobile devices and cloud storage, people can take their personal information outside their home and with them. This gives the illusion that whatever information a person have on them is now public and available.

Your invented legal theories are meaningless. You have no right to deny the Government physical evidence. What a wonderful criminal world that would be.

Submission + - IMF sounds alarm on ballooning US national debt: 'Something will have to give

schwit1 writes:

Under current policies, public debt in the U.S. is projected to nearly double by 2053. The IMF identified “large fiscal slippages” in the U.S. in 2023, with government spending surpassing revenue by 8.8% of GDP – a 4.1% increase from the previous year, despite strong economic growth.

If this trend continues, the Congressional Budget Office anticipates the national debt will grow to an astonishing $54 trillion in the next decade. Higher interest rates are also compounding the pain of higher debt.

Should that debt materialize, it could risk America’s economic standing in the world.

The IMF is talking down to Washington like we’re a Third World country because that’s the direction Washington is taking us.

Interest payments alone on the current debt is $1.6T/year.

Submission + - British Columbia bans autonomous cars

Baloo Uriza writes: In a rare display of sanity in the automotive space, British Columbia has banned autonomous cars from its highways, after years of watching autonomous cars hamper emergency response efforts in California and outright kill a pedestrian in Arizona. Let's hope this regulatory trend continues, and moves into the human space by pulling licenses of drivers with a known history of poor driving.

Comment Re:Police don't even need this (Score 1, Troll) 126

That's literally what the 5th amendment was written to prevent- compelled confession: "nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself"
You're trying to equate preventing police from obtaining evidence with compelled confession. That's either disingenuous, or stupid. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and call it the latter.

Comment Re:/o\ (Score 1) 126

Your thumbprint is not a password though.
Just as a Judge can compel you to give blood to look for evidence of a charge of intoxication, they can compel you to give your thumbprint to look for evidence for the charge of X.

Leaving the password in public view does not grant rights to it any more than leaving one's belongings in the garden.

The fuck? If you leave things in public view, police don't even need a damn warrant to use it.

Comment Re:Insane ruling by troglodyte judges (Score 0) 126

Not even remotely.

The spirit of the 5th amendment is to prevent the Government from compelling you to be a witness against yourself.
Broadly, it meant "no, you can't torture someone until they confess."
Today's meaning has expanded quite a bit past the original spirit, but it's still nowhere near what you think it is.

Never did it mean, "you have the right to keep the Government away from physical evidence"

Comment Re:TicToc Would Be Great... (Score 1) 59

US corporations have killed far more US citizens than the pinkos.
And yes, I'm including 2 ground wars in there.

You gloss over the real problem- how do "the commies" get your house from your IP?
Easy- a US corp sold it to them with no questions asked.

And therein lies the problem with the proposed fix.

Comment Re:Does this make it through SCOTUS? (Score 1) 59

Why can't they handle it like they have done with other foreign media moguls? I think they just made Rupert Murdoch become a US citizen or something like that.

Separate thing.

The US is able to impose domestic ownership requirements on broadcasting licenses, because they are the sole grantor of license for use of the airwaves.
There is no issue with his ownership of News Corp.

Restriction of corporate ownership is a bit more murky in the constitutional waters. The Equal Protection Clause comes into play (as TikTok is a legally incorporated US entity, it therefor has rights), as well as the constitutional restrictions on Bills of Attainder.
Passing a bill specifically targeting an entity was seen by the framers as a usurpation of executive or judicial power.

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