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It depends on the terms and conditions. Google have openly said that anybody using their Gmail service has no expectation of privacy

Security is a complex issue. Step 1 don't take the pictures, but if you must do (and it is a free country) don't share them and keep them secure.

Some cloud services are probably more secure than your home PC, but you pay a lot of cash for those. However once you share an image you are open to it being distributed without your consent. No UK cloud service is safe from GCHQ, although if you encrypt your image before sending it then you will give even them an issue.

As far as the actresses (and actors - it will happen eventually) goes it is unacceptable and fairly horrid, but nobody will lose their job and the world will move on. It is an oddity that they are successful because they are attractive (sex sells ) the downside is lots of people are motivated to get a (digital) glimpse of them naked.

Incidentally if you walked past JL in the street I bet you wouldn't recognise her.

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Enfield tears up rules in radical attempt to ease housing problem
Pushed into a corner by soaring prices, greedy landlords and a cap on benefits, one London council has embarked on a daring set of untested policies to provide more public housing

http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/sep/01/enfield-experiment-housing-problem-radical-solution?CMP=twt_gu


Well worth a read.

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So it might be an interesting fight for selection ....

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Same with Facebook. Their messenger app comes with the small print that by installing it to your phone or tablet you are giving them permission to access and view all your files and the contact details of everyone on your phone, read/edit/send emails and texts, edit your contacts to add or delete whoever they want, monitor your position via GPS so as to get an idea of your shopping habits, remote access your camera at any time (including when it's in sleep mode) without you knowing and generally monitor your entire life for anything they can make a profit out of.

And best of all if you install it on an iPhone you can't even see what permissions you are giving them.

There are times when I am very glad that we live in such a remote - non digitised / internet enabled - area that we are spared or, if you prefer, denied such problems.

A mobile signal would be nice. So would reliable and reasonably speedy internet access. Digital radio .... ha, ha, ha (hollowly) what's that?

I imagine even a remote hacker might get pissed off by the frequent outages and slow speeds here.

Small mercies and blessings. And trying to always look on the bright side.

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Getting the Baltics to pay a proportionate share of NATO defence spending might help.

http://order-order.com/2014/09/01/libdems-select-hancock-cover-up-ally-to-fight-his-seat/

Here's another for PF....

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Nick Robinson ‏@bbcnickrobinson 11m
Interviewing @AlexSalmond in the morning at a distillery. He'll be smiling & may even raise a glass when he sees latest YouGov poll

For some light relief.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturepicturegalleries/10435797/The-top-20-space-movies.html

Not a bad effort, I might have been tempted to move Star Trek 2 into the top 10, but other than that...

Disappointed to see Star Wars The Phantom Menace was just pipped to top spot.

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George Eaton ‏@georgeeaton 9s
YouGov poll in tomorrow's Times puts Scottish Yes just six points behind (gap was 18 in July) http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/l ... 193736.ece …

Erm, nobody else has really been showing 18 point deficits.

Looks a lot like 47-53 from other pollsters then.

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Well yes.

But why is Nick Robinson bigging it up?

After Squeaker's "Dave pointing" by Alex Andreou this morning, I have to say I'm rather liking Mr Andreou.
This piece makes some excellent points about jumping to conclusions.


http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre ... r-families

(Dave Pointing for anyone who missed it http://sturdyblog.wordpress.com/ )

Silent Running at number 25 (most lists overlook that little gem), Dark Star at 13 ....yeah, not bad. Disappointing to see the Clooney Solaris (although it is a damn good film) but not the far superior Andrei Tarkovsky version in the list, but that may just be me reaching geek overload!

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I said the same to myself when I went through.

Does Planet of the Apes count as a 'space movie' given that it's on Earth?

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Alex is one of their better writers and, like Zoe, isn't afraid of taking on the trolls BTL; seeing him at work BTL on an immigration piece is an absolute joy. Loved that Foxtons piece, meant to flag it up here but got distracted at work.

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Couldn't agree less. You're basically saying that not only does a woman not have any privacy but that she shouldn't even imagine she should have any if she appears in a photograph less than fully clad. Talk about victim-blaming and letting the reprehensible people off.

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I think so, it certainly merits its place in that list. The only real issue I have with it is ....... 2001, top, again!!! I loathe that film, think it is vastly overrated but, apparently, I am the only person in the universe who thinks that. Ah well.

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Yep - been a couple of pieces by him I've read and though Yes! well said!

Lord Ashcroft ‏@LordAshcroft · 2m
YouGov/Sun poll CON 34% LAB 35% LDEM 7% UKIP 14%

Mike Smithson ‏@MSmithsonPB · 4m
ComRes phone poll for the Indy sees LAB lead increase to 7%
CON 28+1
LAB 35+2
LD 9+1
UKIP 17=

That Lib Dem 7-9% is looking increasingly nailed on.

Hard to see them picking up much from UKIP either.

You really really really can NOT make this lot up
Guardian front page, Tuesday 2 September 2014:
Cameron shelves move to ban British jihadis returning to UK

https://twitter.com/guardian/status/506555598507618304

Actually it isn't just women, men can suffer this sort of thing.

I think the interesting story is how were these images obtained, especially those of the young lady who said they had been deleted. We didn't actually need to be told who had been hacked.

In theory you are entitled to take photographs of yourself naked and store them on a cloud platform. But as others have pointed out here we see a collision between people's expectation of privacy and what the cloud provider actually provides. This is even more of an issue with modern mobile phones that very often send your pictures to cloud platforms as a default setting - either as backup or as storage. Once in the cloud terms and conditions vary.

It is a risky world especially if you are a famous person as this stuff usually gets out somehow. I don't have any issue with people taking photographs of themselves doing anything legal and non violent. I wouldn't regard an individual who did such things as in any way transgressing acceptable behaviour (as long as they don't post pictures of their partner without its consent).

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It was always going to be impossible in international law. You have to take your citizens back.

If Cameron had a competent AG he would know that, sadly he sacked Grieve and Wright either wasn't asked, didn't care or didn't dare to talk Cameron down.

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Was Cameron relying on David Anderson, the terrorism law assessor?

Aren't the jihadis going to enjoy Cameron's backdown?

Wouldn't it have been better for him to say "They won't force us to change our ways" or something? Then nick a couple.

According to the Telegraph Cameron is claiming he can use a threat to national security to bomb ISIS and inform the commons later.

Is he arguing that a bunch of fighters in a desert in Iraq are about to storm the Palace of Westminster?

That would not go down well (and he won't do it with a clear majority in the UK against action).

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Can I just clarify that I had no issues with your original post, and that it was the two sneering ones that followed it that offended me, a fact I overlooked making plain.

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