Dr. Andy Farnell on Privacy Failings and Shallow Media Coverage
Bad media paves the way for failed societies
At around midday today Dr. Andy Farnell, a parent of a young girl, released this article about privacy and confidentiality:
Obviously at a swimming pool phones are banned to stop perverts and paedos filming. Especially these days with Elon Musk's software for undressing random strangers, it's a concern to any parent to see adults holding up their phones near their kids. Yet despite prominent signs prohibiting phones at a local pool, the staff are overwhelmed and intervene reluctantly. When they do ask people to put their phones away they often receive abuse and threats.A similar problem exists with 'glassholes' - antisocial inadequates who wear camera glasses in normal public life. The fact that these perv devices are deliberately disguised to conceal what they are is a psychological giveaway. Don't get me wrong, these are great devices for undercover journalists, police work or spies. An associate working for Which magazine just completed an undercover investigation into clinics offering cosmetic surgery to underage teenagers. As a 14 year-old she filmed doctors up close offering lip fillers and other face surgery. (These doctors are breaking the law). But what does it say about a person who wears covert spywear all day as a matter of routine? Walking in the street? In a restaurant? At work where there are sensitive documents?
This was 6 years ago: Bill and Melinda Gates Employee Took Photos of Young Boys at the Beach
He was later arrested for pedophilia. He was arrested at the home of Bill Gates, whose involvements with Jeffrey Epstein are very much public knowledge by now (it's why Melinda divorced him, according to herself).
But Dr. Farnell mostly criticises the media and how it evades much bigger pictures and very big problems. █