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>If they're focused on and used for recording an individual granted asylum... Was that the purpose? Were there no security cameras before? If this was a new in

>If they're focused on and used for recording an individual granted asylum... Was that the purpose? Were there no security cameras before? If this was a new installation, was he aware of it? Did the placement of the new cameras take privacy into consideration (e.g. avoiding sleeping quarters, toilets, etc.)?

ggg2 7y ago
great questions. how do you expect to have answers if even the reason for the main event, the hand over of Assange, is surrounded with disinformation ranging even from literal shit on the walls? we will never know what exactly happened on this one. that is for sure.
dpwm 7y ago
A lot of people seem to have a very narrow idea of privacy. For what it's worth there were also allegations of microphones being used to record private conversations. The release of footage from the embassy to the international media seemed a particularly bizarre way to announce to the international community that your government has pure contempt for human rights.
- mikeash 7y ago
  Next time they should just refuse to take in the international fugitive and let him be arrested on the spot. Then nobody will say they have pure contempt for human rights.
  - dpwm 7y ago
    That government was not this government. This government does appear to have pure contempt for due process and human rights. Just like the US.
    - cyphar 7y ago
      Obama suspended habeas corpus[1], extending the Bush-era abductions that were found to be unconstitutional. There hasn't been a US government that respects due process and human rights in a long time. [1]: https://www.salon.com/2010/05/21/bagram_6/ https://www.salon.com/2010/05/21/bagram_6/
      - dpwm 7y ago
        I absolutely agree. My wording was ambiguous. The "just like the US" didn't apply to the change of government, but over a much longer timescale. This is absolutely something that has been almost consistent amongst US leaders going back as far as I can remember. Human rights and due process seem to be a stick with which to (selectively) beat other nations. They don't apply to the US or its cronies.

ggg2 7y ago

great questions. how do you expect to have answers if even the reason for the main event, the hand over of Assange, is surrounded with disinformation ranging even from literal shit on the walls? we will never know what exactly happened on this one. that is for sure.

dpwm 7y ago

A lot of people seem to have a very narrow idea of privacy. For what it's worth there were also allegations of microphones being used to record private conversations. The release of footage from the embassy to the international media seemed a particularly bizarre way to announce to the international community that your government has pure contempt for human rights.

mikeash 7y ago
Next time they should just refuse to take in the international fugitive and let him be arrested on the spot. Then nobody will say they have pure contempt for human rights.
- dpwm 7y ago
  That government was not this government. This government does appear to have pure contempt for due process and human rights. Just like the US.
  - cyphar 7y ago
    Obama suspended habeas corpus[1], extending the Bush-era abductions that were found to be unconstitutional. There hasn't been a US government that respects due process and human rights in a long time. [1]: https://www.salon.com/2010/05/21/bagram_6/ https://www.salon.com/2010/05/21/bagram_6/
    - dpwm 7y ago
      I absolutely agree. My wording was ambiguous. The "just like the US" didn't apply to the change of government, but over a much longer timescale. This is absolutely something that has been almost consistent amongst US leaders going back as far as I can remember. Human rights and due process seem to be a stick with which to (selectively) beat other nations. They don't apply to the US or its cronies.