digital privacy and how government overreach threatens our fundamental civil rights very concerning eldar levison the founder of log a bit an encrypted email service published an article in the guardian describing how the federal government forced levison to install a surveillance device on his email servers and surrender his company's private encroaching keys this of course undermines the very service that lava bit wanted to offer which was designed to protect users privacy and when response leveson shut down his company's so edward with the ongoing saga of snowden versus the u.s. surveillance state levinson's article it brings up some very important issues here so can you tell me what struck out as the most unnerving part of these legal proceedings with love a bit and. for me it was the concept that the government really controlled the process is a very secret process if you imagine the government trying to do the exact same thing with google having a secret process with suing google would therefore google do things google has an army of lawyers that can go against it but here we're looking at