Topia aims to stop this. They are going to develop decentralized peer-to-peer infrastructure which enables each person to send encrypted transaction without the use of a central authority. Today, we send information via email, messengers, text, and programs such as slack which go through a central authority. In other words, someone has that information.
Now this makes this project a suparb one as they aim at helping us stop the prying eyes if the government and private companies like Facebook and Google like you rightly said, but on the flip side, don't you think crime will be on the increase and the ability to fight crime by the force will be crippled. Most times when there is a homicide for instance , the police would go look up the persons details , call records and internet records. Imagine those records are all encrypted. How do they find the culprit.
I wouldn't know the solution to profer for this but u think we should always look at issues like this In two directions and not conclude just looking in one direction.
I don't think it is excactly like that. Don't they like search for more public stuff. Do they actually have instant acces there into private, without any bureucracy even from inside? Hard for me to believe that it takes 10 minutes to go trough all data just like that. And I doubt that there are too many people getting out just like that because some officials can't read their "tweets". Here in finland it seems to so that in 80% of those homicide cases, police has already known who the person is. So I think they are just over excaggerating things. In other hands, in USA there is propably more crime that is "build in system", which make the wrong doers possibly just be some average-joes who were born to poor America.
Isnt that what they want you to believe? How often is someone a victim of a crime versus how often we are spied upon?
And arent the "crimes" committed against those done by large corporations who know every detail of our lives. I will take my chances with the few homicidal maniacs out there and less police/government intrusion along with corporate following.
How often do the police access your phone? How often is Google, Facebook, and the cell phone carrier in there?