Posts by draenan

Is iPhone data collection legal?

"Nanny/police state"?

"Perhaps the law in question could do with some revising, but you don't just allow anyone to break laws they don't agree with.

Otherwise who, other than parliament, should get to decide which laws still apply and which are OK to ignore?"

It's a valid point, but only if you are completely squeaky-clean in your observance to all laws. After all, you shouldn't be breaking any laws you don't agree with, right?

What tends to annoy me is the large number of people who complain about companies not following laws exactly as written, yet having no hesitation themselves in breaking the laws they don't agree with; "piracy" on the Internet being a classic example. These are the people who tend to use words like "nanny state" or "police state."

Of course people aren't happy with it.

Those people are free to not use that company's services.

I'm hoping that the people who are complaining that a company isn't following the letter of the law are all squeaky clean in regard to the law themselves and don't get involved in "illegal" activities like speeding and sharing of content they don't own on Bit Torrent just because they don't happen to agree with the law that defines the activity as illegal.

They'd be complete hypocrites otherwise.

Is this the Telecommunication Act *1997*?

I agree; let's ensure that all advances in communications technology be tied to legislation that is written when said advances hadn't even been thought of. Who needs smartphones anyway?

Looks like Amateur Armchair Lawyer Night at the Peanut Gallery again. BYO tin-foil hat.