Scarily, I agree with every damned word: The Government has been saying, in a catchy, misleading piece of spin: “If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear.” This is a demagogue's trick. We do have something to fear - the total loss of privacy to an intrusive state with authoritarian tendencies ( Read more... )

When I wrote my GIP explaining this icon I wrote a brief paragraph of the legal case it was inspired by. It appears that my memory was slightly faulty on a few minor details, and The Snow in Summer[1] has a much better explanation and also links to the then Staggers editor, Steve Platt, own website and recollections. This post is partially to ( Read more... )