However shitty reddit may be, at least it's real humans talking about things humans care about. Way better than the spammers that have bamboozled google with SEO, which is about to be worsened by AI.

The 5th Amendment isn't about public vs private stuff. It's because at the time it was common to torture people until they confess. Passwords are an interesting case because they can't be a false confession; but confessing that you know the password is confessing that you have access to the account, but the stuff protected by the password is physical evidence and not a confession. There's been cases of people being compelled to share their password after admitting they know it. And biometrics are physical evidence, not a confession.

I reckon one of his biggest worries right now is how to find a running mate that won't backstab him with the 25th Amendment at the first opportunity.

All the most rapidly developing economies are in developing countries (weird huh?). In terms of population Europe+North America is smaller than Africa and 4x smaller than Asia. So predictions about global population stuff means it's not about you.

Forcing a change doesn't mean making the change at gunpoint, offering choices is the usual method to force a change (eg a competitor "forces" a monopoly to drop their prices).

Yes, people are discovering that you can be under surveillance in public, or not under surveillance in public. For some reason, there's idiots who want a world of being universally under surveillance in public, with all their actions logged and recorded and archived forever.

I use IRC!

That proves the exact opposite. That's how we know, without any doubt, Apple has complete access to the backups: they handed them over to the FBI without complaint.

However, they were stale, as the phone hadn't been backed up for a while, and the FBI wanted them to unlock the phone so that they could get the more recent data. That's where Apple refused to help the FBI.

In the end, the FBI didn't need Apple's help, they were able to root the phone due to one of the many zero days in iOS.

Smashing open your walls to check if anything is hidden inside the drywall is a reasonable search too, as long as they got a proper warrant for it first. Otherwise the search is unwarranted.

Compensating him is probably cheaper than having their source of funding pissed off at them, or having to do safe deorbit of all their trash.

Trump made history by being the oldest president the US has elected, if he wins a second term he'll update that record. He could very well declare himself dictator for life, without violating the two term limit.

You have to say you live in Florida. What are they going to do, actually check?

I'm just glad they decided to use this data gathering against rich people. The government might wipe their ass with the Constitution, but stopping the rich from cheating on their taxes is one step too far. I can only hope that when this is ruled un-American, it will be a wide ruling that covers you & me and not just "the IRS may not use this data".

Buddy these AIs are meant to free you... from having a job.

You can't go after people who claim to live in one of their extra homes for tax purposes but in reality are cheating the people of your state! That's so unfair, they might have to sell one of their vacation homes or even their yacht!