Alex Tolley

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• David Eisner commented on Parallel Reconstruction and the new Stasi
  Retired NSA director William Binney explains what the Snowden leaks really mean. That sentence would lead the casual reader to believe that William Binney was once a Director of the NSA. Binney was director of the NSA’s World Geopolitical and Military Analysis Reporting Group, but he was never the NSA Director....
• paws4thot commented on Parallel Reconstruction and the new Stasi
  I thought that in Ms Lawrence's case, the relevant photos were published in a pay (or at least for profit) format? Otherwise, I agree with your issues, but at least we've established ownership and liability without actually needing any new laws....
• paws4thot commented on Parallel Reconstruction and the new Stasi
  And #75. I believe Finnish law is an exception here. Certainly my comment applies in USian, Canadian, UK, Irish, French, Dutch, German, Italian and Spanish law (based on discussions with models and other photographers). Actually, in the case here, where the photo is a selfie, Finnish law is the same in practice because the model and photographer are the same person!...
• El commented on Parallel Reconstruction and the new Stasi
  I thought they weren't published on a pay site but I didn't go to check and have no intention of doing so. I'm not generally in favour of new legislation just for the hell of it but I think there's already a clear need, probably of adding to the universal declaration of human rights so it becomes rapidly spread around the world, for a right to privacy becoming enshrined in law. The bits and pieces of legislation we've got sort of protect bits and pieces in scraps and get muppets arguing their rights supercede copyright law and all the rest....
• Antonia T Tiger commented on Parallel Reconstruction and the new Stasi
  One of the latest things: it is being reported that the US Government has claimed that running a particular piece of software is evidence of criminal intent, and this justifies hacking into a non-US server to gather evidence, without need of a warrant. They had other reasons, but "Indeed, the fact that the [Silk Road] Server was running 'phpmyadmin' would have further corroborated that it was hosting Silk Road, since 'phpmyadmin' is used to administer PHP databases – which are commonly used to run online businesses – and Silk Road's reliance on PHP databases was readily observable from the website...