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This guy was arrested in Valencia: https://github.com/GrenderG https://github.com/GrenderG Tried to find a Twitter thread from his lawyer, but no luck. Check t

This guy was arrested in Valencia: https://github.com/GrenderG https://github.com/GrenderG Tried to find a Twitter thread from his lawyer, but no luck. Check this out: http://www.levante-emv.com/comunitat-valenciana/2017/09/22/policia-registra-casa-joven-burjassot/1618752.html http://www.levante-emv.com/comunitat-valenciana/2017/09/22/p... He was also taken to police premises, put on the phone with someone from Madrid and released. Indicted for a crime here couldn't commit as he's not a civil servant. Also the judge authorised to get his online accounts and change the passwords (wtf). A terrible attack on civil liberties. http://www.lavanguardia.com/local/valencia/20170927/431592821704/hacker-burjassot-registro.html http://www.lavanguardia.com/local/valencia/20170927/43159282...

euyyn 9y ago
Thanks for the links! From them, he was asked whether he was under contract by the Generalitat to do it. If they can't find any evidence of such contract, I expect the charges will be dismissed and his stuff restored. I don't think the argument that he's not allowed to do it, by his own will with his own funds, will hold in court; if I understand the law correctly. I guess at most he might be in trouble regarding the Ley de Protección de Datos, IANAL and I wouldn't know. In any case if private data-handling is fine and still the law wouldn't allow it, that law needs to be changed.
- NetStrikeForce 9y ago
  Thank you for asking for those :-) I also expect charges dismissed. A detail about his stuff is that he didn't get a receipt (as per his lawyer that was not yet present), so his things were (in his lawyer's words) "effectively stolen by the police". This happened before the "where to vote" part of the referendum site existed. It was just an informational static site. Many other have been called to declare with "no specific crime" in the judge notifications also for mirroring the website, including at least one member of the Catalan branch of the Pirate Party. This has been seen by some as harassment to avoid more people mirroring the website.

euyyn 9y ago

Thanks for the links! From them, he was asked whether he was under contract by the Generalitat to do it. If they can't find any evidence of such contract, I expect the charges will be dismissed and his stuff restored. I don't think the argument that he's not allowed to do it, by his own will with his own funds, will hold in court; if I understand the law correctly. I guess at most he might be in trouble regarding the Ley de Protección de Datos, IANAL and I wouldn't know. In any case if private data-handling is fine and still the law wouldn't allow it, that law needs to be changed.

NetStrikeForce 9y ago
Thank you for asking for those :-) I also expect charges dismissed. A detail about his stuff is that he didn't get a receipt (as per his lawyer that was not yet present), so his things were (in his lawyer's words) "effectively stolen by the police". This happened before the "where to vote" part of the referendum site existed. It was just an informational static site. Many other have been called to declare with "no specific crime" in the judge notifications also for mirroring the website, including at least one member of the Catalan branch of the Pirate Party. This has been seen by some as harassment to avoid more people mirroring the website.