Starts by talking about a discrepancy between technology and law, and I agree, but not in the way Comey is saying.
The discrepancy is that where once communications we considered private (loved ones, close friends) was generally face to face and phone lines were just used for business or more innocuous conversation, now all of it takes place along these lines the FBI and NSA want to have access too, along with personal information and other stuff that used to be only physical.
The discrepancy is that they want the law to grant them powers as if the internet is just a different type of phone line from the 60s.
One of the panelists from last Wednesday's senate hearing Peter Swire (Huang Professor of Law and Ethics, GT) puts forward the case that we're in actually in a Golden Age of Surveillance. I largely agree, but unfortunately most of the coverage I've seen starts by uncritically accepting the "going dark" narrative.
The discrepancy is that where once communications we considered private (loved ones, close friends) was generally face to face and phone lines were just used for business or more innocuous conversation, now all of it takes place along these lines the FBI and NSA want to have access too, along with personal information and other stuff that used to be only physical.
The discrepancy is that they want the law to grant them powers as if the internet is just a different type of phone line from the 60s.