Off The Beat: Hawaii Doesn’t Need Big Brother
Talk about a bill gone wrong.
“This is Big Brother made real,” Robert Brewer, the founder of LavaNet, said Thursday about , a measure with the innocuous title, “RELATING TO RECORDKEEPING.”
Yeah, sure. It might be better titled, “RELATING TO THE GOVERNMENT KNOWING EVERY WEB SITE EVERY PERSON VISITS.”
Local law enforcement may be frustrated in their efforts to solve cyber crimes. But maybe they should remember a fundamental medical principle, “First do no harm.”
When there’s a problem, the first thing you’d think reasonable people would do is determine its scope and evaluate their options. Instead, a handful of Hawaii lawmakers want to rush in and impose requirements on Internet Service Providers that would be onerous for them and invasive for the rest of us.
Sometimes solutions to “problems” are worse than the problems themselves.
This is one of those cases.
