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I have no idea how regulated “the rest of us are.” This brush-off does not convince me that private spying is good, or that regulations are sufficient to stop i
by matthewdgreen 1y ago
I have no idea how regulated “the rest of us are.” This brush-off does not convince me that private spying is good, or that regulations are sufficient to stop it. In fact, the existence of an article in Politico makes me strongly suspect this is part of a discussion in which someone argues for more regulation. Fortunately I don’t live in the UK. Unfortunately I’m not convinced that is a barrier.
ETA: the argument “what, do you expect these people not to keep engaging in work that we traditionally reserve for governments, how will they feed their kids?” also leaves me quite cold.
- cs02rm0 1y agoI don't buy that it's work traditionally reserved for governments, or that it's all bad. There are people offering their services to find kidnapped children, I struggle to see that as a bad thing. Private investigatory work has a long history in the country of Sherlock Holmes (or at least Dr Joseph Bell). You have figures as far back as Harry Philby flirting with foreign governments after their time within the UK government. They're not offering government services, they're offering their own capabilities.
- rendaw 1y ago> Black Cube ... its staff had snooped on journalists and adopted false identities to obtain information about film mogul Harvey Weinstein’s sexual abuse accusers That sounds like more or less the opposite of finding kidnapped children. > Providing home addresses to Russian oligarchs who have a history of topping people — particularly journalists