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Re:First U.S. Ban on Sale of Cellphone Location Data Might B... by bilalq on Monday July 10, 2023 @04:20PM (#36672384)
Agreed that this is not a problem that can be solved via a technical solution. However, I don't think a political solution is possible either. Even in the US, police can literally get away with murder today. Why would they have any difficulty getting away with privacy violations? Big Brother is inevitable. All you can do at this point is teach children and future generations to live with the understanding that they are being monitored at all times. This isn't me trying to be edgy or cynical. The genie's out of the bottle at this point and it's just reality.
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Re:First U.S. Ban on Sale of Cellphone Location Data Might B... by xapata on Monday July 10, 2023 @05:15PM (#36673052)
The way to fight back is ubiquitous public monitoring of the state. We should understand that the state is always watching, but the state should also be aware that all its actions will be public knowledge.

Note the increased awareness brought by widely available cameras with immediate upload capability. The commenter above implied this is dystopian, but the opposite seems to have occurred -- as the public gains the capability to surveil the state, it constrains the state.

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Re:First U.S. Ban on Sale of Cellphone Location Data Might B... by handity on Monday July 10, 2023 @05:35PM (#36673294)
WikiLeaks tried that, Assange is still in Belmarsh and the MSM is still largely allowing him to rot there.
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Re:First U.S. Ban on Sale of Cellphone Location Data Might B... by ncphil on Monday July 10, 2023 @07:51PM (#36674676)
This is a good point. Of course anyone who thought the MSM, or print journalism, were in business to reveal the actual truth really needs to review their history. The worst part is that Julian (whether intentionally or not) probably made that sacrifice for nothing. At least here in the US most people don't know or care. That's a shame. And an embarrassment.
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Re:First U.S. Ban on Sale of Cellphone Location Data Might B... by adrr on Monday July 10, 2023 @08:32PM (#36675018)
He could just stop fighting the extradition unless there are concerns he wouldn’t get a fair trial in the US. I haven’t heard of such concerns and he could probably get a solid legal defense team with private donations.
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Re:First U.S. Ban on Sale of Cellphone Location Data Might B... by handity on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @10:56AM (#36681930)
If he is extradited, 100% guaranteed he will not get a fair trial by any common definition of that term.
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Re:First U.S. Ban on Sale of Cellphone Location Data Might B... by adrr on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @05:15PM (#36687310)
Can you point to any trial that wasn't fair in the US in recent history?
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Re:First U.S. Ban on Sale of Cellphone Location Data Might B... by bilalq on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @12:52AM (#36690592)
I have no particular viewpoint regarding Assange, but depending on your understanding of "fair", there are probably many whose fairness can be questioned. Partiality of judges, imbalance of legal team budgets, etc. Look at any case brought up by a patent troll against a small/medium business.

One case that personally always bothers me was regarding the murder of Philando Castile.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Philando_Castile#Tr...

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Re:First U.S. Ban on Sale of Cellphone Location Data Might B... by adrr on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @01:36PM (#36698447)
I’ll narrow my statement down to fair for the defendant.
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Re:First U.S. Ban on Sale of Cellphone Location Data Might B... by xapata on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @02:30AM (#36677128)
I was thinking of something more communal/distributed. WikiLeaks wanted centralization.
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Re:First U.S. Ban on Sale of Cellphone Location Data Might B... by handity on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @10:55AM (#36681907)
I had a second part to my comment about how web3 was the answer, but the public have been largely convinced that it's synonymous with get rich quick schemes or a worse version of Twitter. Where is the next WikiLeaks?
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