www/philosophy surveillance-vs-democracy.html

[Richard M. Stallman]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Richard M. Stallman <rms>       14/06/05 12:09:55

Modified files:
        philosophy     : surveillance-vs-democracy.html 

Log message:
        Minor clarification.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.24&r2=1.25

Patches:
Index: surveillance-vs-democracy.html
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RCS file: /web/www/www/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html,v
retrieving revision 1.24
retrieving revision 1.25
diff -u -b -r1.24 -r1.25
--- surveillance-vs-democracy.html      27 May 2014 23:23:41 -0000      1.24
+++ surveillance-vs-democracy.html      5 Jun 2014 12:09:53 -0000       1.25
@@ -400,7 +400,8 @@
 naturally extend to the power to tap Internet connections.  This power
 is easy to abuse for political reasons, but it is also necessary.
 Fortunately, this won't make it possible to find whistleblowers after
-the fact.</p>
+the fact, if (as I recommend) we prevent digital systems from accumulating
+massive dossiers before the fact.</p>
 
 <p>Individuals with special state-granted power, such as police,
 forfeit their right to privacy and must be monitored.  (In fact,
@@ -500,7 +501,7 @@
 
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