But TOR (which stands for The Onion Router) also runs slower than other browsers, and enables some potentially risky activity. What do you think about using the TOR browser for privacy?Ī: The free TOR browser allows you to be more anonymous on the internet than you would be with browsers such as Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome. That has to do with their 'Stingray' technology, but I'm sure it applies to any kind of digital surveillance.Q: I read your column on private Web browsing (see /vd6fwz3). The new document, which was released Tuesday by the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) in response to its March 2015 victory in a lawsuit filed against the Erie County Sheriff’s Office (ECSO) in Northwestern New York, includes this paragraph: 'In order to ensure that such wireless collection equipment/technology continues to be available for use by the law enforcement community, the equipment/technology and any information related to its functions, operation and use shall be protected from potential compromise by precluding disclosure of this information to the public in any manner including but not limited to: press releases, in court documents, during judicial hearings, or during other public forums or proceedings.'

The FBI actually has a policy to drop cases instead of revealing their detection (spying) methods, to avoid public scrutiny of what they're doing. Personally I would vote to reduce surveillance and accept a higher rate of criminal activity. It is probably technologically possible for law enforcement to scan all of the records of the great majority of citizens to look for criminal activity. On the central topic there need to be clear rules about what capabilities we want law enforcement to have. If the images do harm children, then the FBI should destroy them as soon as they are discovered to prevent continuing harm. If the images don't do actual harm to children, the people who posses the images are only guilty of a minor crime.

This is not the start of a slippery slope, it is well down the slope. Otherwise we could have police informants carrying out gang hits in order to capture higher level crime bosses. I think its been generally established that law enforcement cannot commit felonies in order to gather evidence. Considering that the argument for why distributing and owning (as opposed to producing) child porn is that the images actively harm children, I do not think there is any way to justify the FBI's behavior.

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