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Look who's joined the anti-encryption posse: Germany, come on down

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> prime minister Malcolm Turnbull, who told Parliament: "The privacy of a terrorist can never be more important than public safety – never."

Notwithstanding that his comment is debatable, that the two are not mutually exclusive, and that dignity is something that must never be taken away from anyone¹, what about the privacy rights of the rest of the population?

¹ Last decade I was on the receiving end of an attack that left about twenty people dead, so my experience is not purely abstract, nor based on fear induced by mass-media and political coverage of these matters.

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