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Privacy and death-scene photos of deceased relatives

Daniel J. Solove of Concurring Opinions recounts the legal difficulties surrounding “the tragic story about a family being harassed by the spread of death-scene images of their daughter, who was killed in an automobile accident. The photos of Nikki Catsouras were particularly gruesome — Nikki was decapitated in the crash. According to the article, soon [...]

Recruiting, online ‘indecency’, and the professionalization of social media

A passage from Walter Benjamin, though from a different time, could just as well be said today of those who snicker at the ‘obscenity’ of social media.
“(In Moscow I lived in a hotel in which almost all the rooms were occupied by Tibetan lamas who had come to Moscow for a congress of Buddhist churches. [...]

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