Disappointment

Richard Posner is a 7th Circuit Federal Judge. He’s always struck me as the ideal jurist. Informed not only on the law but in many other areas, especially economics. More than a Judge, he’s an intellectual and perhaps even a polymath.

I was really saddened, therefore, to see this piece on BoingBoing detailing some of Posner’s shocking remarks on privacy. Among other things, Posner thinks that the NSA should be given carte blanche “to vacuum all the trillions of bits of information that are crawling through the electronic worldwide networks”, that privacy is over rated, and that he’s shocked that any company would be allowed to build a device that the government can’t search.

These statements—and more, read the post—are shocking and profoundly disappointing. I expected more from Posner and hope that the rest of the judiciary rejects his views.

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