Reporting Facts is Not a Privacy Violation
FOR A number of years now a group of militants connected to Microsoft (some of them now serving time in prison; one may need to fly to the UK to defend himself in lawsuits filed against him in the High Court [1, 2]) have constantly harassed us. They even phoned my employer and my wife's employer. They even harassed family members. They're not "Activists", they're pests. I've had to speak to the police at least 30 times in the past couple of years due to these despicable people (whose actions me and my family reported to the police) and they're always based in America, not the UK. Remember that. A lot of this online troublemaking comes from Americans or Brits who moved to America, where they hide behind "the First Amendment" (which they don't even agree with; they selfishly exploit it to abuse people). When things don't go their way - or even backfire - they procure reputation laundering services from some firms deep in debt and with less than 100,000 pounds left in the bank (to pay salaries and such).
The most ridiculous accusations made by three of these aggressors from America is that it's somehow a privacy violation to report about despicable things they did to me and to my family. Yes, they actually attempted this angle. For instance, this transphobic troll thinks that merely showing what he said to the whole world in Social Control Media is somehow not legal! It looks like MJG's miserable PR/law firm is trying to salvage the "case" which went awry - in which they hoped for pre-settlement without justice done (settlement attempted at least three times; he attempted this due to a lack of merit!) - by bringing up something from several years ago, via a person close to MJG's spouse (connected via housemates). They are not strangers. We're now told that a man who strangled women deserves "privacy". Pointing to publicly-accessible evidence is not a problem, as both American and British laws permit that. They first attempted this back in October. This was the second time it happened that month, first via the webhost and false claims of "GDPR" something (over material published by oneself to the public domain) and then via the reputation laundering firm.
Techrights has long valued and defended privacy. If some online aggressors foolishly post embarrassing information about themselves - or even get arrested and charged - there's nothing wrong with pointing that out.
"Privacy" should never become a "cover" for bad people, a la "Right to be Forgotten". As long as it is both factual and relevant, information can be brought up any time.
The moment "privacy" gets weaponised by bad people (who worked for GAFAM, including Microsoft; all the above worked for Microsoft or wanted to work for Microsoft) we all stand to lose. █
