Anonymity

[Fittster]

"Thousands of bloggers who operate behind the cloak of anonymity have no right to keep their identities secret, the High Court ruled today

In a landmark decision, Mr Justice Eady refused to grant an order to protect the anonymity of a police officer who is the author of a blog called NightJack.

The officer, Richard Horton, 45, a detective constable with Lancashire Constabulary, had sought an injunction to stop The Times from revealing his name"

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_...

Poor show from The Times. Why can a blogger not have anonymity when a newspaper source can?

Edited by Fittster on Tuesday 16th June 19:16

[loltolhurst]

theres no such thing as privacy / anonymity on the web. or increasingly anywhere..

[LoveMachine]

Time to build a bit-splicer.

Time to find out more about encryption. Time to use tunnels and generally say no.

Sadly, the gumment will find it hard to stamp out ways of controlling the interweb.

It is the last frontier and any steps to limit it would be Chinese in ethos.

[Mr_annie_vxr]

LoveMachine said:

Time to build a bit-splicer.

Time to find out more about encryption. Time to use tunnels and generally say no.

Sadly, the gumment will find it hard to stamp out ways of controlling the interweb.

It is the last frontier and any steps to limit it would be Chinese in ethos.

This was not the government this was the TIMES NEWSPAPER.

[Jasandjules]

Mr Eady has a bit of form in this area IIRC... Again, I think Private Eye look at his stuff in great detail.

[bobthemonkey]

Mr Eady ruled in favour of M.Mosley in the the NOTW case.

[thinfourth2]

Fittster said:

Poor show from The Times. Why can a blogger not have anonymity when a newspaper source can?

As a blogger wants to tell the truth or his story

A newspaper wants to make money

[Don]

I'm all for anonymity if you're smart enough to arrange it.

The internet is not usually anonymous. I'm often surprised people think it is.

[JulianHJ]

Surely when uploading posts to a blog it can be done from a gmail account or similar, and the initial set-up done at an internet cafe or wi-fi hotspot - therefore all untracable? How did they catch this chap?

[scorp]

thinfourth2 said:

Fittster said:

Poor show from The Times. Why can a blogger not have anonymity when a newspaper source can?

As a blogger wants to tell the truth or his story

A newspaper wants to make money

Which begs the question, what does a newspaper want with the 'bloggers' identity ?

[TeamD]

I find it quite odd that the press should want to pick and choose who has the right to annonymity.

[FoolOnTheHill]

Gimme an 'R'...

(;->

[Mr_annie_vxr]

FoolOnTheHill said:

Gimme an 'R'...

(;->

To be fair I think it was here in his sub forum first!