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It's always interesting to me the number of people who come out on HN to advocate vociferously for ownership of their private data, given that HN doesn't even let you delete your a…

If that headline accurately describes the situation, in what sense of the words is it "my data" instead of "data about me?"

+1. When I was a Boy Scout, I had confirmation direct from an FBI agent that once somebody is wanted, the Agency has a long memory and a long reach. The anecdote he shared was a fu…

It's interesting that it may have been avoidable if he'd accepted rendition to Sweden to stand trial for the sexual assault accusation, given that the previous administration was a…

If Assange gets extradited on a charge that the previous administration wouldn't push but the administration his organization assisted in getting elected is willing to (because the…

First Amendment protections are not extended to non-US citizens.

Why? Every organization has whistleblowers. By the same token that Chelsea Manning leaked the state department cables, one can imagine a middle-tier operative with differing politi…

Correct. And would have been entirely unnecessary, because they could just wait him out. If the goal is deterrence, he works just as well as a symbol rotting in the Ecuadorian emba…

Wikileaks has leaked 10 some-odd documents on Australia, so I don't expect them to go to bat for him. The problem with being a uniform thorn in everybody's side is you run out of f…

Or the release of the Vatican letters.

Problem is, Trump says a lot of things that he doesn't mean. Or he forgets, it's a little unclear. But the American intelligence community appears very interested in the guy and is…

I honestly don't know what assange or wikileaks thought was going to happen when they leaked information that was politically embarrassing to an Ecuadorian ally. On the plus side, …

If it was, WikiLeaks would have leaked the details by now.

Ah, see, I'm American. ;) The lane assist can be disabled and a cyclist who hard-brakes in front of me is taking their life in their hands because my Ford only stops if I touch the…

I'll be honest, I still prefer it to the world where lack of software kills people. ... I avoided running over that child I couldn't see in my rear-view because the infrared sensor…

Not a pilot yet myself, but I know exactly enough about flight physics and control to suspect that while you are likely correct about the MCAS jack-screw positioning being undesire…

This is referred to in the industry as a "Dr. McNinja scenario." (... nobody refers to it as that ;) ).

While this is true, the point that it's worth thinking through the nature and consequences of "obviously erroneous" sensor data is still a valuable exercise holds. If the temperatu…

He doesn't seem to be an experienced owner of a home outdoor thermometer though. Or if he is, I need to know where he found one that goes to 452 degrees and why he even needs that …

Google's entire privacy policy is laid out in (by the standards of other documents I've seen) very digestible language. https://policies.google.com/privacy#intro Beyond that, it's …

That's the thing though---given the interface of the law to the question, there are right and wrong things to say and do if one wishes to keep one's job. Paul Graham wrote an essay…

A world built on completely unrestrained speech, surprisingly, is also a world built on fear. Counter-intuitive, but hypothetically: if a workplace has the freedom to openly declar…

> What information would these IT security staff have that we don't? The cost-benefit analysis of their individual industries and the risk tolerance of their companies.

> At what point does it become Google's responsibility The last time we tried to push the responsibility onto individual organizations to inform the public of the basics of how the…

Perhaps the security staff are convinced that either Google doesn't actually have access to it in any practically-concerning sense ( https://www.quora.com/Can-Google-open-and-see-f…