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I'll cite a source for you: "If a man lies with a male as with a women, both of them shall be put to death for their abominable deed; they have forfeited their lives." (Leviticus 20:13 NAB)
Jesus' ministry replaced all previous commandments. Something Christians have forgotten and an agnostic has to constantly remind them of.
The Bible can be made to say anything.
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Why? PRISM is about selected (targeted) collection of data from users that the government has a court order for. Every country in the world does this. This program collects data from traffic passing through the UK regardless of whether the UK government has any reason to suspect the users whose data is collected, let alone present those suspicions to a judge. Yahoo has every reason to be outraged.
I don't think those slides are talking about court order related activities. After all, all companies must comply with court orders, so why would the NSA single out the nine as their "current providers"?
I continue to find it amazing that a "free people" are allowing this kind of thing. No matter what the revelation, the big machine of internet data collection keeps on a 'rollin down the tracks. Web companies harvest it, and government skims what it wants off the top. It's gotta stop, folks. It's just gotta stop. The scary thing isn't that we continue to create some dystopian nightmare. The scary thing is that this c…
Don't the Brits have a constitution to protect their civil liberties? Oh wait, they really don't have a constitution...
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How do you propose? Political action has been ineffective so far.
Has there been any political action in the UK yet? I'm American and hadn't heard of any British politicians speaking out against GCHQ.
I've seen the odd report (and it's very odd when they do report it indeed) on Newsnight where they had some mouthpiece using the "Oh in the wrong hands this would be dangerous but we are the right hands line" alongside the always popular "If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear" and the fun "We stuck strictly within the framework we where told to".
Oohh, wait, you're saying... Ukraine, who's Ukraine?
Oohh, wait, you're saying... Ukraine, who's Ukraine?
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It's also something more tangible for non-geeks than other revelations so more likely to provoke a public reaction. "GHCQ has pics of your teenage daughter ..."
Dear lord, wait until the Daily Mail cops on to that one.
-- Top comment on Reddit [0]: 'This clearly violates both EU and British law. It's simple: Parliament and the CPS can no longer ignore GCHQ's abuses and the entirely inadequate 'oversight' regime of the Intelligence and Security Committee. Brooks et al. go on trial for allegedly hacking celebrities' voicemail messages, but Cabinet ministers walk free after approving secret suspicion-less dragnet recording of millions…
Here is the GCHQ bit of RIPA, which makes reference to part of the bit you quoted.
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/23/section/42
GCHQs mission is to monitor all communications. Thus, to them anything will be proportionate. The over iew and scrutiny failed and failed hard - i have no idea why anyone thought it was acceptable to gather webcam data. (Maybe as a training exercise where the data is then deleted or a proof of concept?)
The document estimates that between 3% and 11% of the Yahoo webcam imagery harvested by GCHQ contains "undesirable nudity". Discussing efforts to make the interface "safer to use", it noted that current "naïve" pornography detectors assessed the amount of flesh in any given shot, and so attracted lots of false positives by incorrectly tagging shots of people's faces as pornography. So, if you have to hide something,…
Reminds me of this story, the googling of which is now in my search history so I hope you're grateful. "A US card cloner forced would-be gang members to take part in group sex sessions as part of an initiation ceremony designed to weed out undercover cops, according to a detective." http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/02/01/smut_initiation_card...