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Elaine's avatar

If you haven't already, go listen to the Knowledge Fight podcast to get the deep details on the Alex Jones stuff. It's so much worse than what most people will know. (You'll probably get a few reccommendations for the podcast down here, but still... Worth checking out.) Very meticulous and thorough deconstruction of all his BS.

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Rick Shera's avatar

A very useful exposition, David.

Your caution about checking privacy laws in different jurisdictions before making a recording without telling the interviewee is well made. Even in New Zealand, the position on recording a call without telling the other person, is not open and shut. While collection and use in a news/current affairs context is exempted under the Privacy Act, for mere mortals like the rest of us who are not journos, or where collection of personal information (information about an identified or identifiable individual) is not news/current affairs related, the ability to record without notice is not absolute. Issues of lawfulness and fairness need to be considered, both under the Act and also arising from case law (most famously explored in the case where the Hosking children were filmed). Further, using information collected for one purpose, for a different purpose, is not allowed e.g., a recording of an interview gathering background info for a book about the history of a city should not be put on Soundcloud as part of an anthology poking fun at weird accents ;-)

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