http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/tags.php?tag=privacy The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Tue, 21 May 2013 21:40:22 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39350#post-111782 Fri, 02 Mar 2012 14:26:07 +0000 Skylarking 111782@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Thanks everybody peeps. The Latin bit is much less clever than it sounds. I just found the name of an Old Papal document from Wikipedia and bunged in a couple of extra latin-sounding words in at the end - make good and bullshit, that's me. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39350#post-111778 Fri, 02 Mar 2012 14:13:32 +0000 Vertically Challenged Giant 111778@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Very good </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39350#post-111777 Fri, 02 Mar 2012 14:11:03 +0000 Midfield Diamond 111777@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Agree this is brilliant and I too confess to a lack of Catholicism and Latin in my education which means the middle para passed me by. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39350#post-111768 Fri, 02 Mar 2012 13:13:26 +0000 Griffin 111768@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Brilliant. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39350#post-111712 Fri, 02 Mar 2012 09:12:02 +0000 writinginbsl 111712@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>wot wayland said</p> <p>late stars-makes a good fp! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39350#post-111672 Thu, 01 Mar 2012 21:13:24 +0000 waylandsmithy 111672@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I like it and there's some really funny bits in there! Unfortunately I'm too stupid to understand some of the references. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39350#post-111669 Thu, 01 Mar 2012 20:27:39 +0000 Perks 111669@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Brilliant comparison. Love it </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39350#post-111666 Thu, 01 Mar 2012 19:56:11 +0000 Skylarking 111666@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>The Roman Catholic Church has been defending its new privacy policy, following concerns that the latest changes may allow the Church to sell confessional data onto third party organisations.</p> <p>The policy changes, implemented on Wednesday, allow the church to ‘collate information about users from a number of disparate platforms, with the aim of providing a more unified customer experience.’ It will mean that priests can utilise information from confessional for ‘better targeted sermons.’ </p> <p>Critics, however, believe that the church plans to sell the data onto organisations such as private detective agencies and Harley Street surgeries. They have also pointed out that advance warning of the changes occured halfway through a particularly gruelling 8000 page Encyclical ‘Providentissimus Proboscis Deus De Facto.’ </p> <p>This is not the first time the Holy Roman Church has faced opprobrium for such behaviour. The Archbishop of Warsaw was recently forced to resign, following revelations that he had used material from confessionals to author the best selling ‘Improper Suggestions’ series of erotic fiction. Stanislaw Wasilevski, now defrocked, is still being pursued in the courts by angry parishioners over unpaid royalties.</p> <p>A spokesman for the Vatican said that the changes ‘greatly simplified’ the previously labyrinthine privacy policies, adding that churchgoers could ‘control and manage’ their histories, either by opting out of confession or by lying to the priest. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=12081#post-33151 Sat, 11 Sep 2010 15:25:50 +0000 DonnaQuixote 33151@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>“Freedom of the press is all very well”, claims clerical worker JS, “but as somebody who nobody has ever heard of, I have a right to publicity too. Why should these A-list celebs get photos of their body parts plastered all over the media, when I have worked in local government all my life and never had so much as a mention in Hello Magazine?”</p> <p>JS (whose real name is too insignificant to mention) is so desperate to avoid the cold glare of mediocrity that she has posted seventeen videos on Who?Tube showing scenes from her daily life: walking the dog, going to the gym, even a long lens shot of her getting ready for bed behind the net curtains of her terraced house in Sutton Coldfield.</p> <p>“I've tried everything”, she complained. “I have even taken out a court injunction against the paparazzi who consistently ignore me. But every morning when I come out of my house to go to work, there is absolutely nobody camped on the doorstep.”</p> <p>“I have complained time and time again to BT about the lack of nuisance phone calls, but they say there is nothing I can do except keep my existing number and give it to everyone I meet. I've even put it on my FaceBook page, but I've only got one Friend and that's only because I have the same name as someone he went to school with .”</p> <p>At a time when the right to publicity is being claimed as a fundamental civil liberty by incognitos worldwide, a spokesman from the Press Council hotly defended the right to keep uninteresting individuals out of the public eye. “Nothing beats a good scandal”, he pronounced, “and it's cheaper too.” </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=4844#post-13490 Fri, 21 May 2010 08:32:26 +0000 Mrblacker 13490@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Civil rights groups say they're concerned that the official mascots for the Olympics in London, could be seen as an invasion of privacy.</p> <p>Wenlock and Mandeville were unveiled to the public this week to a wave of indifference. But one of their key features is a single eye that doubles up as a video and stills camera.</p> <p>"This is a potential minefield" Michael Mansfield QC explained. </p> <p>"Here you have two essentially playful figures that will be wandering around the country in the run-up to the games and no-one is monitoring what they will film. Not only are there privacy implications, but also ones of national security."</p> <p>Lord Coe, chair of the London Organising Committee said he understood concerns but re-assured people there was nothing untoward.</p> <p>"Our intention is not to uncover illegal activity or to film anything that might be of use to terrorists. Everything that's filmed will be censored by the government before it's aired."</p> <p>He also confirmed that one the games are over, the mascots are being lined up to join the Metropolitan Police's Video Surveillance Unit. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3899#post-11173 Thu, 06 May 2010 16:02:05 +0000 PluckyMunky 11173@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I know what you mean about dogs licking their bollocks, though, Jeni. I expect some men would, though, if they could. I always tell our cats off for cleaning their undercarriages in front of the fire. I suggest to them that they have never seen Mrs Munky doing it. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3899#post-11167 Thu, 06 May 2010 15:39:19 +0000 The All New Jeni B 11167@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>It does raise some issues Plucky, and having seen the footage of the Chimps grieving I have to agree that some of the higher simians could be considered human.</p> <p>Dear old Barney used to hide behind trees when doing a number two to stop anyone seeing him. If he was out on the lead, he'd always turn his back on us instead.</p> <p>I must admit, I don't like when the dog comes into the bathroom when I'm on the loo, so what's good for the goose and all that... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3899#post-11152 Thu, 06 May 2010 14:23:28 +0000 PluckyMunky 11152@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>We always make our cats wear knickers, to stop the peeping Toms, Jeni.</p> <p>I have mixed feelings about this debate. There is a lot of talk, now, about some animals being sentient and perhaps should be classed as human. I think we might have been a bit arrogant, over the last few thousand years, to assume that only humans have thoughts or feelings or whatever.</p> <p>Anyway, I know our cats don't like being watched when they are going to the loo, so it suggests that they are experiencing some sort of embarrassment. Perhaps I stare too hard. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3899#post-11114 Thu, 06 May 2010 09:31:31 +0000 The All New Jeni B 11114@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Depends. Have you confirmed consent from the animals concerned? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3899#post-11110 Thu, 06 May 2010 09:23:39 +0000 edward hack 11110@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Does this include humans having sex with animals...or am I OK </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3899#post-11106 Thu, 06 May 2010 09:12:18 +0000 The All New Jeni B 11106@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>If my dog wants me to respect his right to privacy, he should stop licking his balls on the floor in front of the tv.</p> <p>What next? Animal agents demanding performance fees before you can cross the Serengeti? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3899#post-11101 Thu, 06 May 2010 09:05:12 +0000 Drofmor 11101@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>From last Thursday's Telegraph (my apologies if it's already been posted):</p> <p><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/7653305/Wildlife-documentaries-invade-animal-privacy-rights-claims-leading-academic.html">Wildlife documentaries invade animal privacy rights</a> </p>