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Originally Posted by Stonius
I agree that the likelihood of a leak is high. But I think at this point in human history we have to recognise that the horse has bolted. There is no secure private information anymore. We live in a post-privacy era. Privacy is simply incompatible with information networks who's main purpose is to distribute information, not restrict it. Authorities have the right to demand that information, but they have no real ability to guarantee that that data will be safe.
But even so, an invasion of privacy is worlds apart from torture and physical/sexual abuse, hence why it's the bigger problem here. Sheesh, even the Nazi's didn't vote for concentration camps, but we did, in full knowledge of what was going on there.
Oops, did I just invoke Godwin's Law? :-)
-Markus
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These are completely separate issues and implying that giving up control of your data to some government demigod is not an issue because people are being held on Naru is a distraction. Naru is just a stupid policy in place by a stupid government.
Grabbing your personal data for monetary gain in breach of the Privacy Act and allowing these parasites to get away with it, is the kind of stupidity that allows them to think they can get away with Naru scenarios in the first place.
How quickly some people are prepared to give in when it comes to this crappy behaviour. If you let them get away with abusing you directly, why it's so much easier for them to think it's okay to abuse anyone else. Be careful, before you know it they'll set up detention centres for Australians where abuse is "acceptable". No wait... They already have... Don dale ring a bell?