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Why?
Because it's offtopic and a drag. Imagine showing up at a party and someone starts accosting you with "since you are here I want to tell you how off-putting" their pet peeves about your work are. I doubt you'd want to hang around in that conversation, and it doesn't make for the best party. We're hoping for better conversations and more interesting parties.
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The laws and principles of privacy protection are generally built from the perspective that people have privacy interests that need protection, but dead bodies aren't people anymore and have no privacy rights. We do have certain restrictions about the deceased, but those are designed to protect the interests and privacy of their surviving family, relatives and friends, not the deceased themselves. For example, we can…
>we can read and even publish the private diaries and intimate correspondence of dead people the rules around publishing (and reading) private diaries are the same for dead people as they are for living people, aren't they?
If I somehow legally obtain your diary and publish juicy exerpts and facts from it (publishing all of it would be restricted by copyright), then you may have grounds to sue me for violations of your privacy. If you're dead, your heirs can't do that, they can protect their rights (e.g. the inherited copyright), but not your privacy. It's similar for defamation; after you're dead, defaming you does not violate the rights of anyone - anyone living, that is.
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Two points: One, I don't know who you're looking at! They look very, very similar to me. Keep in mind, you have to age your mental image of JWM about ten years. Second, it's absolutely clear that MH wanted to "go missing" / be untraceable. If I were to accomplish that, the best way to do so would be to fake some sort of accident... like a mishap at sea (so that people believe you to be dead). Hence, shrimping boat.
Quite an odd thing to say. While it can be easy to think that someone looks alike due to the "overall appearance" of their faces, closer inspection usually sets things apart. Their completely different chins are one example. Secondly, his DNA didn't match the missing person's database, which you are getting your "match" from. There's no reason to be defensive. You've done nothing wrong. Wrong starts only if it is imp…
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I'm slightly less concerned about being anonymous from the government and far more concerned about being anonymous from businesses . How is it that every time I move, they still figure out where I live and continue to send me junk mail? I'm extremely concerned about the ease of arbitrary businesses finding out where some person lives. I want this to be unethical to the point that whoever leaked my address without my…
USPS sells change-of-address data. https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamtanner/2013/07/08/how-the-p...
Not even a passing mention of the privacy questions at stake here. I don’t fault the police for seeking answers, but every self-nominated amateur sleuth isn’t due an answer about the identity of someone who in all likelihood wanted to live privately and never committed a crime.
That could give some peace to their beloved ones, and nothing can harm him anymore. It seems that he has tell to be a divorced; maybe he has children. I think that is a fair move.
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Let's say your address was 256 Main St. Apt 10, Some City, CA, USA I usually provide my address as 256 Main St. Unit 10-BCRK, Some City, CA, USA I generate a unique code for each entity that I am required to provide my address to. I usually change "Apt" to "Unit" to stump the automatic address-correcting APIs that will convert "Apt 10-BCRK" to "Apt 10". I found that changing "Apt" to "Unit" usually stumps them. The i…
This is a great idea and I would like to use it. However, I have only the house number and street address. What can I do in that case? PS: I generate separate emails already. Example: somebusiness@mydomain.com However, I have not found a single case where they leaked my email address, so I am not sure if it helps for spam and privacy.
Well, this was quite the rabbit hole for me. Great article, btw. Here's my best candidate from some internet sleuthing: https://imgur.com/EMPKO2V . I do definitely see some resemblance, but interested if others do too. I have a possible name, but no evidence that anyone with that name has been reported missing. The only contact point I found is a twitter profile that I think could be a brother, but I'm not about to m…
I wonder what ClearviewAI has to say about this :)
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Many of these pages look to me like he was designing a game. - p2p, client-server notes - Class definitions and implementation notes - Source code doing position calculations
Could it be the same person? https://steamcommunity.com/id/n0s0ck He has a comment on https://steamcommunity.com/app/464350/discussions/0/35165980...
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Sounds like a future rife for violation of people's rights in my opinion.
Doesn't sound much different from right now, and at our current rate we have no protections against it happening here in the US.
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-hancoski-b342aa53 This guy looks like a clean shaven version of those pictures. Noses look the same. The eyes. No updates to the account since 2015.
Damn, they really DO look very similar. Mike appears to have unattached earlobes, and MH's appear attached, however.