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Google Turns Over Data on Suspected Pedophiles In Brazil
Dionysius, God of Wine and Leaf, points to a Yahoo! story which begins "Google on Wednesday handed over data stored by suspected pedophiles on its Orkut social networking site to Brazilian authorities, ceding to pressure to lift its confidentiality duty to its users, officials said."
your average hysterical slippery sloper "ITS THE FIRST STEP TO 1984 FASCISM PAPERS PLEASE..." crowd sees any invasion of privacy, no matter how limited, no matter what the reason, no matter what the context, as something tantamount to pulling your pants down for a border guard
yes, "WONT SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN" as a mental state is a signifier pointer of hysteria eroding privacy. however, hysteria exists in the privacy defender camp as well. just look at some of the hypermanic comments here bordering on paranoid sschizophrenia. folks: if you wish to actually protect privacy, the first thing you want to do is avoid hysteria of your own
this handing over pedophile information in brazil is not the unstoppable slide into fascists police statehood. its just not. if you believe it is, you have ceded your ability to reason to your own fear uncertainty and denial, and you are in the same mental state as the hysterics you say are eroding privacy. hysterics for privacy rights is not an asset
so how do you protect privacy? with a rational, calm, realistic mind. if someone moves an inch down the road to no privacy rights, you don't act like they moved a mile down the road, and you don't act like its an unstoppable slide. the first thing you do when you think about prudence and realism, is you realize that sometimes, in limited ways, for valid reasons, with a set of rules in place and with public disclosure, privacy deserves to be violated. or that every now and then the authorities may overstep their bounds. shrug it off. really. privacy fundamentalism is not realistic, its just a naive idealism
when i say that, if you immediately imagine jack booted thugs marching through the street, you are not an asset to the fight for privacy rights. you simply aren't. you are simply a victim of the same kind of hysteria you imagine powers the "WONT SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN CROWD"
gentle admonishment. not "OMG WERE ALL SLAVES". got it?
otherwise, you are of the "WONT SOMEONE THINK OF THE PRIVACY" loony bin. passion for an issue is not useful unless it is also accompanied by an intelligence for an issue. a thrashing drooling psychotic fear is not a valuable asset in your fight for privacy rights. so calm the fuck down. argue rationally. or shut up. you're not helping any cause you think you are helping with histrionics
something like this disclosure in brazil is not an unstoppable slippery slope into fascism and 1984. it really isnt. so snap out of it
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
I did miss that in the article, you're correct. I was responding to what the lawsuit alleges, not what the technician guessed.
That doesn't change the fact that no one (outside the gov) knows what information was really being "mined" or even monitored. It's somewhat unlikely that secret spy rooms contained more storage space than, say, Google which is what they'd need to mine data from "every single citizen." Your paranoia and fear-mongered are based on ignorance of the capabilities of their equipment, not knowledge of what it's actually doing.
Some of us don't see "secret NSA spy room" and wet our pants in fear that government computers are going to scan our email or web traffic. Now, I can see why someone who stalks children or downloads kiddie porn might get fearful.
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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. -- George Orwell
True BUT Do you have pictures of child porn in your online photo album?
The point is its not search records, as far as i can see, being released its the unlocking of online photo albums.
At the end of the day we need to redefine "rights", there are certain people who just shouldnt have any full stop.
Human Rights is a load of balls, There have been more criminals getting away with something because of their "human rights" than decent people being protected by them.
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