Re:Beijing bets on facial recognition in a big drive for tot...
by atlantic on Monday January 08, 2018 @04:45AM
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Don't forget that he never actually leaked anything. He stole data but did not place it in the public domain. Instead, he handed it over to a group of journalists who were given the function of filtering the data before publication. To date, only about 5% of Snowden's material has been published.
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Re:Beijing bets on facial recognition in a big drive for tot...
by doktrin on Monday January 08, 2018 @07:31AM
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> He stole data but did not place it in the public domain. Instead, he handed it over to a group of journalists who were given the function of filtering the data before publication
I understand that, but strictly speaking it's not relevant. He stole the data, and is therefore responsible for whatever eventually gets disseminated - good and ill alike. As far as ownership goes, it doesn't really matter if it was eventually published via the Guardian, Wikileaks or his nextdoor neighbor.