Comment 74506

By Undustrial (registered) - website | Posted February 17, 2012 at 00:47:07

I heart Corey Doctorow.

I'm more than a little tired of the excessive use of sexual violence as a justification by the justice system. Indifference, inaction and victim-blaming are huge issues faced by survivors of sexual assault when they attempt to seek legal help, which is why most don't, and why those who do so rarely get "justice". If they wanted to start taking action on these issues, they could start by spending a little less time listening to our phone calls and a little more time listening to victims.

As for these new laws, the technological potential here is incredible. Now that our phones are computers, the amount of data they store and transmit is incredible and growing. We're rapidly entering a world where everything is not only recorded, but cross-referenced, and that leaves very little room for privacy. Consider this recent case from the US: Target superstores learned to effectively track pregnancies very early through purchase patterns, for the sake of marketing. In the process, though, they got a lot of attention by unwittingly tipping off the father of a high-school aged girl that he was about to become a grandfather... http://www.businessinsider.com/the-incre...

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