[Chester LUG] Privacy and liberty

[Michael Crilly]

Again, valid point(s), but again I ask: what can you do about it? I
understand the problem, we all do, but what can you do?

On 6/1/08, Roger Gibson <rcgibson at talktalk.net> wrote:
>
> David makes some very valid points.  Jean Charles de Menezes had no
> opportunity to prove he was innocent when faulty surveillance left him with
> 8 dum-dum bullets in his head on a tube train at Stockwell station.  Nobody
> waited for a Judge to say it was OK to kill him.
>
> We must all have received emails 'for the wrong Roger Gibson'.  There are
> frequent news items about mistaken identity at US immigration causing
> innocent people to be locked up or deported.  Joe Public believes computers
> never lie.  We know that faulty software and erroneous data sets abound.
>  Much surveillance software will be Microsoft based.  Data on paper locked
> up (or even not locked up) in filing cabinets is one thing.  Poorly secured
> data bases used as part of a wide computer trawl will inevitably throw up
> mismatched data.
>
> When I know I am innocent, I don't want to have to undergo much trauma and
> expense to prove it.  I would rather that the alleged case against me had
> been properly investigated, and was not based solely on dodgy data sets.
>  Roger.
>
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M. T. Crilly
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