Comments on: There ain’t such a thing as privacy http://www.technollama.co.uk/digital-privacy Not Just Another Technology Law Blog Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:12:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Lilian Edwards http://www.technollama.co.uk/digital-privacy/comment-page-1#comment-2343 Lilian Edwards Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:03:38 +0000 http://www.technollama.co.uk/?p=2283#comment-2343 Yeh, the doctrine of privacy by obscurity beaten out by open scrutiny but with lots of distracting noise -- you're an open source guy, I can see why this appeals :) But I doubt you can convince Judith or even possibly me - for all I talk online, my important stuff is fairly thoroughly locked down.. Yeh, the doctrine of privacy by obscurity beaten out by open scrutiny but with lots of distracting noise — you’re an open source guy, I can see why this appeals :) But I doubt you can convince Judith or even possibly me – for all I talk online, my important stuff is fairly thoroughly locked down..

]]> By: JennaMcWilliams http://www.technollama.co.uk/digital-privacy/comment-page-1#comment-2342 JennaMcWilliams Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:09:38 +0000 http://www.technollama.co.uk/?p=2283#comment-2342 What makes me mad--smoking, steaming, boiling mad--is how the article you link to makes a point of sexualizing this woman in a male-fantasy kind of way. If our culture is going to argue that lesbian affairs between teachers and students are JUST AS HEINOUS!!! (they exclaimed, shrilly) as those between opposite-sex teachers and students, then this news should be reported in the same, "look at what a craven predator she looks like in this picture" way. I give you... http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/08/05/1091558002934.html OR if we're going to argue that this issue is more complex than the media like to make it out to be, then news accounts should reflect that. Should, should, should. If shoulds were ad dollars, newspapers would thrive. What makes me mad–smoking, steaming, boiling mad–is how the article you link to makes a point of sexualizing this woman in a male-fantasy kind of way. If our culture is going to argue that lesbian affairs between teachers and students are JUST AS HEINOUS!!! (they exclaimed, shrilly) as those between opposite-sex teachers and students, then this news should be reported in the same, “look at what a craven predator she looks like in this picture” way. I give you… http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/08/05/1091558002934.html

OR if we’re going to argue that this issue is more complex than the media like to make it out to be, then news accounts should reflect that.

Should, should, should. If shoulds were ad dollars, newspapers would thrive.

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