GCHQ intercepted webcam images of millions of Yahoo users worldwide

Post by poulson » Sat, Mar 01, 2014, 5:36 PM UTC

poulson wrote: post #162

StefanKarpinski wrote: post #19

This really isn't any worse than the other invasions of privacy that have been revealed – but it's much easier to point at it as an egregious and visceral violation of privacy. Even though webcam stills may be the least important (or useful) spying the US and UK have been doing, this may be some of the best fodder for arguments to limit such activities. So thank you, UK, for being so dumb.

I think that this leak will have the biggest effect. It bothered me enough that I emailed the entire college of computing at my university (I am a junior faculty member) to argue for setting ethical boundaries for big data projects, but, alas, I doubt that I will get a response.

Post by gaius » Sun, Mar 02, 2014, 12:41 PM UTC

TheSpiceIsLife wrote: post #313

ars wrote: post #189

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've always thought it was odd that people got upset about homosexuality and not about adultery. Religiously they are equally bad. Perhaps it's because it's not really a religious issue (just using that as an excuse). Biologically people are repelled by homosexuality and attracted to adultery. That affects their state of mind, and they look for a reason for that and catch upon religious arguments.

You can say "I am a homosexual", and identify as such. You cannot say "my sexual preference is adultery".