Privacy is Not a Crime (in Places Where It is a Crime the Regime is Typically Very Rogue)
Also, or additionally, criminals lack "privacy rights" with which to hide their crimes from the public
"Privacy" (or secrecy, framed another way with negative connotation) as a pertinent concept is grotesquely misused by powerful (or rich) people to hide their wrongdoing/crime. There's nothing new about this. It has always been like that. They want to know everything about everybody else, but hypocritically at the same time they want nobody else to know their private things. It's about power. It's about leverage. They invariantly seek asymmetric and disproportional power over other people.
In its reporting, this site often reveals information that some companies (or people) want suppressed. By its very definition, journalism (or reporting) is about revealing to the public something that the public does not already (or yet) know.
At the moment, Microsoft people attack us viciously, trying to suppress access to factual information (worry not, we've not surrendered to their demands) and, as noted earlier, this is only going to backfire on them. The more threats they send our way... the worse it'll get... for them.
Criminals do not have a right to "privacy" as in a right to hide evidence of their crimes. There are even clear provisions in British law dealing with such circumstances. In terms of press freedom, the EU and the UK are still well ranked, whereas the US keeps sinking lower and lower (it's on par with some African dictatorship now). Imagine how much worse it'll get if Donald Trump wins the election and does what he already said he would (shutting down outlets critical of him).
Thankfully, this site is based in the UK and its operations fall under British law. We're reasonably well protected. The UK is ranked 23 out of 180 nations, based on Reporters Without Borders (RSF), whereas the US (where the Microsofters send us threats from) is ranked 55. Belize is 54, Ivory Coast is 53, Chile is 52, Mauritius is 57, Mauritius is 58, and Gabon is 56.
The cops here were always cooperative when we reported threats and crimes committed against us (albeit it's harder to enforce the law when the crimes/abuses are done from another continent). I duly give credit to the cops who responded to serious reports from my family and I. Unlike the Met (London), GMP has reputation for actually being useful sometimes and a lot less violent.
Again, we are reasonably well protected and we can report facts; those who threaten people for reporting facts will suffer the consequences. █
