It's not "illegaly spy", it' just spy. National security laws make sure that these requests are all legal - from that particular country's point of view who is forcing the provider to supply the info... and illegal from all the other country's point of view.
The root of this problem is that nation states have the final say in what they consider legal. But that difficulty is by design and is very difficult to fix.
replyA few weeks ago the FBI tipped the Argentinian police that some 15 year old kid from buenos aires province had asked chatgpt for ideas to plan a school massacre.
replyjust to confirm your info... https://buenosairesherald.com/society/argentine-teenager-pla...
In the interest of balance, how many times did the FBI snoop into innocent people’s private lives with no warrant or worse, goaded some weak-minded individuals into planning crimes together in sting operations (i.e. people who needed convincing to commit the crime, so not quite clean but not the masterminds either)?
replyIf you put out a fire how many are you allowed to set while people applaud selectively?
I don’t think they’re striking a good balance between how invasive they are compared to the real results they deliver.
to be clear: I'm against this "pre-crime" FBI bullshit. it's overreach.
reply> I think the only technical solution available to individuals is to boycott non-verifiably e2ee services
replyIf the world moved that way overnight, I wonder where digital spy budgets would go. Into traditional techniques, cracking encryption, banning encryption, or a more educated guess?