Indeed. In the UK, we're wrestling with a rightwing _news_ junta with its own surveillace abuses, intertwined with the police.
The power to dig up every detail about someone's life then publish it for the adverse judgement of millions of people is capable of great destructiveness if abused.
In the UK, we're wrestling with a rightwing _news_ junta with its own surveillace abuses, intertwined with the police.
While that may be true, it's not really the same situation.
For one thing, it seems clear that the behaviour in question was illegal, and people are going to jail for it.
For another, guessing that someone won't have changed the default PIN to access their voicemail is not on the same technical level as, say, building backdoors into widely used hardware by being sneaky with state-of-the-art mathematics.
The power to dig up every detail about someone's life then publish it for the adverse judgement of millions of people is capable of great destructiveness if abused.