Law enforcement does not have the right to be in my private meetings. Even with a warrant or if they spy, there are risks and limits. Yes, they can spy, but they are limited by reality. Encryption imposes almost the same limitations on digital life as secrecy does in real life. Why should my rights be different online?
You haven’t met many police officers lately, I guess. They all agree that they have the right to break the law, and a duty to protect anyone in their group (not just police officers, but almost any other government employee) from the law. At the very least until that paedophile teacher manages to get into the newspaper just by the shear number of victims he makes. By far the biggest group of child abuse perpetrators are physical Ed teachers (which is even pretty obvious, if you were a paedophile, what job would you take?) and the agencies protecting children all get regularly caught abusing children, and generally getting away with it.
The child argument is stupid because government employees, and children themselves share about 90% of child abuse crimes between them. Of course, one might make the point that children abusing other children at school is also technically their responsibility ... as it’s on their watch. There’s no point protecting against the 1% case ...
That’s what I find so hard to believe. Governments know they themselves are the big problem when it comes to child abuse, but the reaction is always more, and ever more powerful bureaucrats, some of which have excellent positions to abuse children with (like youth services psychiatrists, who decide on the use of state violence against children. Doesn’t take an expert how that post can be abused to get an 11 year old girl to ... you). We know no-one is taking any of these jobs for the excellent benefits or pay ...
