I think we can all agree that we don't want this sort of communication hidden. Essentially we want public officials to stop using private devices for this sort of communication at all. However unless one of the communications comes to light how can you tell (bear with me). more importantly how do they prove they are NOT doing so without granting access to all of their private messages. If they are using good encryption then it may well be very difficult to access their own devices without their consent. Techdirt itself has covered this. It also raises questions bout their privacy. does public office strip those rights? now I'm not defending hiding official messages but I can see that enforcing this is not going to be easy
It's been ages since I came across one which was but, but this is mainly due to the existence of software like this. They gave up on that battle. They did try for a while though.
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Great in principle but....
I think we can all agree that we don't want this sort of communication hidden. Essentially we want public officials to stop using private devices for this sort of communication at all. However unless one of the communications comes to light how can you tell (bear with me). more importantly how do they prove they are NOT doing so without granting access to all of their private messages. If they are using good encryption then it may well be very difficult to access their own devices without their consent. Techdirt itself has covered this. It also raises questions bout their privacy. does public office strip those rights? now I'm not defending hiding official messages but I can see that enforcing this is not going to be easy
Re: Cd's aren't copy protected
It's been ages since I came across one which was but, but this is mainly due to the existence of software like this. They gave up on that battle. They did try for a while though.