Tag: law

Bookmarks for February 22, 2012

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Bookmarks for July 1, 2011

  • BBC News – Ed Miliband: 'These strikes are wrong'
    Look just go and watch this, if you haven't seen it by now. And please bear in mind that this is, allegedly, someone who would quite like to run the country. Because I don't know about you, but this reminds me of nothing so much as a lightly concussed goldfish.
    Tags: politics, uk
  • Justice: RIP? | Beneath The Wig
    An absolutely sterling article of the recent trail of Levi Bellfield, in defiance of the recent round of Tabloid mentalism over the fact that Bellfield was, in essence, entitled to as full a defence as the next person. Was it sad, and painful for the parents? Yes, and of course they deserve compassion. Was it also in the best interests of justice? Yes. We should not let shoddy tabloid journalism encourage us to think otherwise.
    Tags: uk, law

Bookmarks for July 13, 2010

  • Bankrupt Gay Teen Site May Be Forced to Hand Over Personal Information of Users
    This is why you need to be careful with what data you hand to what websites, kids. You might well trust any given website website and the people running it today, but if something goes wrong, and the company goes bankrupt, your data is an asset that belongs to them. And as this article makes clear, the only thing that bankruptcy administrators are allowed to care about it getting the most money back for the creditors. Which means (at the moment, pending a change in the law to improve privacy in cases like this) they're ethically constrained from being picky about what happens to your data – if the highest bidder is a shit who is going to use the data to make everyone involved's life in some way worse, that's just tough for them, because they have to sell to the highest bidder in order to fairly represent the creditor's interests.
  • The Technium: The Maes-Garreau Point
    Interesting piece about predictions, singularities, and the tendency of utopians (and a lot of doomsayers) to predict paradigm shifting event to occur around the end of their own lifetime.
    Tags: future, theory
  • HelvetiNote™
    If they add some form of over-the-air syncing, then I'm sold.

Bookmarks for November 24, 2009

Bookmarks for November 19, 2009

Bookmarks for October 21, 2009

  • Sex trafficking is no illusion | Rahila Gupta | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
    I was slighly horrified to read Nick Davies (a journalist I normally have a lot of respect for, and consider his book Dark Heart to be mandatory reading) article in the Graudiad yesterday, which contained the elemetary error that just because a six month operation had failed to successfully prosecute anyone for sex trafficking in the UK, the problem wasn't that bad. Here is an excellent rebuttal to that piece, also from the Grauniad (which itself contains a link to Mr Davies original piece at the top, which is why I haven't linked it here.)

Bookmarks for September 28, 2009

Bookmarks for September 15, 2009