c0lo writes "No, unfortunately surveillance evangelism has not been made illegal overnight.
The EFF reports that, in an ironic twist of karma, FBI agents arrested a Mexican tycoon named Jose Susumo Azano Matsura at his Coronado, Calif. home on Wednesday as part of a political bribery investigation based on captured emails, seized banking records, and covertly recorded conversations. Azano, and three Americans who acted as his agents, are now facing felony charges in an alleged conspiracy to illegally pump roughly $500,000 into local election campaigns in the border city of San Diego.
Does SoylentNews have contributors from Mexico to share with us some insight (or just local gossip) about this shoddy character?"
(Score: 4, Insightful) by darinbob on Tuesday February 25 2014, @10:42PM
Confusing summary. Not sure what "surveillance evangelist" means at first. This means that the opening words of "in an ironic twist of karma" means nothing without knowing the background. Sure all that information is in the linked story but it would be nice to have a summary that describes what the story is about.
(even after reading the story there's not much irony in it)
(Score: 4, Interesting) by stormwyrm on Tuesday February 25 2014, @10:50PM
The irony it seems is that Azano was hoist with his own petard and arrested by use of the very same surveillance technologies and techniques that he and his company promote so heavily.
Qu'on me donne six lignes écrites de la main du plus honnête homme, j'y trouverai de quoi le faire pendre.
(Score: 2, Informative) by JimmyCrackCorn on Wednesday February 26 2014, @12:09AM
Agreed. Furthermore, the use of "Americans" is ambiguous, and degrading to any thoughtful reader. USA, US citizen, people from USA....
(Score: 3, Informative) by Tr1mT4b on Wednesday February 26 2014, @03:49AM
I agree and would go so far as to say the Title and summary on the front page needs to be updated. If one wants to lead with how someone is a "surveillance evangelist" and how something ironic happened, then for crying out loud:
It's important to state front and center that the person in question owns a company that sells spyware to governments and that he has a history of promoting invasive technologies to further fuel state powers.
Then one can see the irony and bask in the glory, rather than
a) get annoyed and go somewhere else
or b) like me dig deeper, still annoyed.
I only researched further because I saw EFF was involved and they have a history of being on target. On Slashdot this post would get flamed to pieces I think. We need higher standards over here no? ;-)