Comment APLRs are making privacy extinct (Score 4, Insightful) 147
Yes, you can catch a few more criminals by total surveillance. But in return you violate everyone else's privacy.
Yes, you can catch a few more criminals by total surveillance. But in return you violate everyone else's privacy.
One of the points of a properly constituted "basic income" scheme is that the income is supposed to be unconditional, exactly to remove such perverse incentives.
That you receive a rotten deal doesn't mean others should also
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The headline is misleading -- it was Congress that wrote the law, where the term "whistleblower" is specifically defined to only include those who report misconduct to the SEC. The Supreme Court simply confirmed that we are governed by the law as written.
Note that elsewhere in Dodd–Frank (in the part dealing with reporting to the CFPB) and in Sorbanes–Oxley whistleblowers are defined differently, so that even those that only report misconduct internally are protected.
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