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The alleged means of the so called beach are the nub of the issue here. 'Jigsaw identification' was a contrivance to specifically target Mr Murray, and notably
by gatvol 5y ago
The alleged means of the so called beach are the nub of the issue here. 'Jigsaw identification' was a contrivance to specifically target Mr Murray, and notably is not a mechanism that has been used against any other entities, though it could have been.
For me, it's far too loosely defined and requires supposition of Intenet (mind reading) , to be used as a means of conviction.
- nickff 5y agoIsn't the "jigsaw identification" essentially similar to the 'personally identifiable information' addressed by GDPR? It seems to me that both constructs stand and fall together.
- himinlomax 5y agoPII is precisely defined, not pulled out of thin air, and nobody's going to jail because of it. Rich corporations like Amazon are fined for fucking with it though.
- mcguire 5y agoAll of the data that can be used to identify a person are precisely defined? Or is it that all of the identity data that someone can be held legally accounted for are precisely defined?
- stuaxo 5y agoIndeed, it seems like the newspapers were already publishing things at the time with far more detail to point at Alex Salmond, but nothing happened to them.
- mpclark 5y agoJigsaw identification is a real thing, and real journalists are taught about it as part of defamation awareness. Related story: when I was the deputy editor of a paper in a large UK city I was read in on the approximate locations of people known to be on our patch who were subjects of injunctions protecting their identities, just so that we didn’t accidentally reveal anything that could expose their whereabouts when reporting seemingly unconnected events such as house fires etc.