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Neil Williams wrote: | On Saturday 09 October 2004 7:21 pm, M.Blackmore wrote: | |>The comment from the international journalists organisation is that this |>smack of political takedown as intimidation of independent information |>outlets. | | No such comment is found as a direct quote.
| I'm not sure about this, the speculation is that it concerns what may in the | UK be termed 'Official Secrets' - granted this is a nebulous term that has | it's own speculation of widespread abuse - but if the speculation is correct, | allowing the unjustified identification of intelligence personnell is at best | unwelcome. It's murky water
I don't see how this can be an issue, it is inevitable that Intelligence personnel will be identified in this connected era. As displayed by the fact the photos of the Officers concerned are available on other websites.
| I'm just not convinced that a democracy is more free when | individuals are publicly identified without their consent or due cause.
How long do you think it will be before Google will let you load up a photo, and it tells you the names of the people on it? Or at least shows you other photos with them in?
I have a couple of friends who all but disappeared from the Internet after taking various "jobs". But this very absence of web data on them is itself very suspicious for people with their interests and backgrounds.
| Absolute freedom is impossible, there must always be limits and most | democracies agree that personal data can be deemed off-limits in the absence | of 'due cause'. e.g. no-one here objects to their name being quoted in a | public archive but everyone would change their password if it was published | (deliberately or not) alongside their name!
Afraid if you wander around in public doing something as obvious as photographing protestors your anonymity is gone.
Historically people never had the anonymity or privacy big cities, and fast transport offered people in the 20th century, the technology has just shrunk it all down to a global village where if you do something people around you will know who you are, and where you live, which was pretty much always the case before.
Anyway the latest conspiracy is the Indymedia takedown is to do with US voting machine vulnerabilities..... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Using GnuPG with Debian - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
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