[HN Gopher] Liberty wins landmark Snoopers' Charter case
       ___________________________________________________________________
        
       Liberty wins landmark Snoopers' Charter case
        
       Author : dane-pgp
       Score  : 39 points
       Date   : 2022-06-24 14:31 UTC (8 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk)
        
       | nonrandomstring wrote:
       | I see an image of Priti Patel, a bulging vein in her head,
       | banging tables, slapping minions in a Downfall style tirade.
        
         | stuaxo wrote:
         | Finding it surprisingly hard to reproduce this in dalle-mini
        
         | CommanderData wrote:
         | Ah yes the compulsive bully, holds secret meetings with foreign
         | powers, frequently breaks human rights laws in Europe. Ofcourse
         | she would!
        
         | dane-pgp wrote:
         | Now I have an image of Priti Patel dressed as Gru, slapping
         | little yellow Minions who are trying to write legal briefs. Can
         | someone get an AI to generate a JPEG of this?
        
       | zh3 wrote:
       | Good to see this.
       | 
       | Bad that as a UK citizen I sometimes worry that my monthly sub to
       | Liberty will count against me ('chilling effect').
        
       | dane-pgp wrote:
       | This only applies to "private communications data" and not other
       | controversial aspects of the Snoopers' Charter like the
       | intelligence services' access to unspecified "bulk personal
       | datasets", but apparently challenges to those provisions are
       | continuing this year:
       | 
       | https://www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/issue/libertys-landmar...
        
       | TheFerridge wrote:
       | It's just a step, but it is an excellent one!
        
       ___________________________________________________________________
       (page generated 2022-06-24 23:02 UTC)