Super interesting data for researchers, I hope someone captured it.
Rather difficult to publish their results without admitting to a criminal offence..
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#12I hope somebody combs through the data and uses it to publish embarrassing trip sequences for public officials and their families because that's the only way politicians and local officials are gonna even consider not supporting these kinds of boondoogle dragnet projects.
When I read your comment, I realized I intuitively view open access to surveillance systems like this as more desirable than limited access, and I don't know how to articulate that feeling.
I'd consider myself privacy-conscious, however it is clear that this sort of open access further limits my "privacy." I wonder if privacy advocacy is more about aversion to certain power imbalances rather than privacy as an end itself for many folks.
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#13Some government official probably scoffed at the need for password protection as "no one will know how to find the site".
More likely it was meant to be an internal service, or at least accessible only from a certain IP range, and someone ballsed up the config.
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#14So who gets the 4% of turnover GDPR fine here? Or is it under the law enforcement exemption?
In my country the government is exemp from fines for GDPR
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#15Super interesting data for researchers, I hope someone captured it.
Rather difficult to publish their results without admitting to a criminal offence..
is it a criminal offense to access an open website? if you had to use even a default password you could imagine it being improperly accessed,but if it's just open to the internet how is a criminal offence committed?
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#18I hope somebody combs through the data and uses it to publish embarrassing trip sequences for public officials and their families because that's the only way politicians and local officials are gonna even consider not supporting these kinds of boondoogle dragnet projects.
Right now, it could be useful to see which Sheffield politicians have been travelling to their second homes (or elsewhere) during the lockdown, or going to the Peak District.
The former Chief Medical Officer of Scotland lost her job by visiting her second home during the lockdown.
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Rather difficult to publish their results without admitting to a criminal offence..
is it a criminal offense to access an open website? if you had to use even a default password you could imagine it being improperly accessed,but if it's just open to the internet how is a criminal offence committed?
It's difficult question in the interpretation of the CMA; if you're not asked for a password do you know that you're unauthorized? https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/computer-misuse-act
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#20I hope somebody combs through the data and uses it to publish embarrassing trip sequences for public officials and their families because that's the only way politicians and local officials are gonna even consider not supporting these kinds of boondoogle dragnet projects.
When I read your comment, I realized I intuitively view open access to surveillance systems like this as more desirable than limited access, and I don't know how to articulate that feeling. I'd consider myself privacy-conscious, however it is clear that this sort of open access further limits my "privacy." I wonder if privacy advocacy is more about aversion to certain power imbalances rather than privacy as an end it…
I am starting to think similarly. I am not bothered by lack of privacy nearly as much as I am about one-sided surveillance.