'Anonymous' targets German far-right with Nazi-leaks.net - 7 views
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shared by Isy :) on 10 Jan 12
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Tranny Franny on 10 Jan 12The social and ethical issues that relate to this article are that privacy and security and reliablility to a certain extent. What the Anonymous group are doing is basically taking people's personal information such as name, age, adress etc. and putting online for everyone to see, simply becuase they favoured nazi views. This is essentially the invasion of people's privacy as people's information is free for everyone to see. IT is also a security issue as people who feel very strongly against people who favour nazi views, have access to these peoples' adresses and could impose a danger. Reliability is also an issue, as it's mentioned in the article that none of the people that were mentioned in the website were actually confirmed to share Nazi ideals, meaing they are unjustly putting people in danger.
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Mr Brooke on 11 Jan 12One of the problems here is the authenticity of data being released. ""This is a lot of data, but there are already some names where it's clear the people are not right-wing extremists." Some people identified in the data had merely been contacted by right-wing publications seeking interviews, she added." Some of the people on the list are not Nazis. What could be a solution to this?
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Morten Nielsen on 11 Jan 12The article does raise some rather interesting social and ethical concerns. The main thing here is of course "Anonymous" breaking the Data Protection Act 1998 with their unlawful obtaining of personal information. While one can admire "Anonymous" fight against neo-nazism, the results they are producing are in fact not reliable. Though, as we've seen in the past, "Anonymous" are skilled proper encryption and security should have been able to fend them off and safeguard all information. Looking back, this would have the ideal to avoid the situation the websites are in now. I cannot see a plausible way of undoing this, and again give privacy to those who had it broken, as the information has been linked to multiple other sites - so perhaps this is only to serve as a lesson for others websites containing personal information.
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joey <3 on 11 Jan 12Well, to be honest the best solution would just to not post any private information online but seeing as that option wouldn't be considered by the 'anonymous' hacker group they could at least find a way and make sure that the only personal information posted online its authentic and from the main followers and contributors to this Nazi supporting website… but I don't really know how they would be able to do this, sooo if anyone knows please share because now I'm curious aha As much as I don't agree with the Nazi ideals and as much as I believe that supporting them is (sorry for being improper here) idiotic. I still don't agree with posting this private information online because as mentioned above, this does pose a major danger to the people whose information has been posted online by the people who have very strong feelings against these Nazi supporters.