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On 2016-03-02 18:34, spike wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">Why does she think
her exposed nudity is really worth 75 million bucks?</p>
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A career can be quite valuable. Top performers can produce 10-300
times the value of an average perfomer to a company (and would hence
expect to get at least a fraction of that value as salary), and this
is especially true for person-linked jobs like media careers. If
somebody wrecks a career that might actually be worth a few million
as 45-Year Earnings and the careerist was a top performer, then 75
million might make sense. <br>
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Also, punitive damages might show up in torts.<br>
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But the real game here is an out-of-court settlement with the hotel.
The hotel has more to lose in terms of reputation (and hence money)
than the nude newscaster, so it is rational to pay up a nice
settlement to make things go away. <br>
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(Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, just married to one. And he is
working in a non-US jurisdiction. I am considering this from an
armchair. My views are not valid in Idaho.)<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">As we brought up a
decade ago: it would be eeeeeasy easy to hide a video device
in a hotel room, almost completely without risk. It could be
set up to receive a call and turn on at any time, and Skype
the video to any remote receiver, with very little risk of
getting caught and not much cost really. So are we now saying
the hotel chain is responsible for find that? In the
meantime, are we cool with it that all assured privacy in any
public place, any public restroom and any hotel room is <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">now gone? Could we not argue that there is
no reasonable expectation of privacy there?</p>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lifehacker.com/detect-and-disable-an-airbnbs-hidden-wi-fi-cameras-with-1752817084">http://lifehacker.com/detect-and-disable-an-airbnbs-hidden-wi-fi-cameras-with-1752817084</a><br>
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"Reasonable expectation of privacy" is not the same thing as being
bug/drone/spyware free. The first is a legal term, the second is
objective state of affairs. The first changes to some extent with
technology and culture. But it is likely that US law regards it as
applying to hotel rooms with some common sense limitations (hotel
staff can in principle enter at any time, etc.) In the long run it
might be both impossible to prevent and easy to do for so many
people that reasonable expectation may not apply.<br>
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The issue is whether the hotel was negligent in not preventing the
spying in the present. <br>
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Anders Sandberg
Future of Humanity Institute
Oxford Martin School
Oxford University</pre>
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