Quote:You're using the wrong term here. Impersonating another person is not forgery and it is not against the law unless it is impersonating a police officer where I'm from. I'm not sure on the UK law.
But it is frogery if you impersonate another person to gain acces to private information - where I am from. And I am certain that it is where you are from to.
as to the term, here is a list of words which supposedly are the translation of "Betrug".
Choose the one which fits into your concept of using language:
Quote:They posed as family members of a person in the hospitals care, and thereby gained privat information about that person`s state of health - and even worse - publicly broadcasted that information - which probably was a contributing factor to why the nurse comitted suicide.
Quote:It doesn't matter. They were not responsible for keeping that information private. The people working for that hospital were. Let's face it. That pregnant chick's nurse is the person to blame here. She broke the rules and possibly the law. She was exploited in a prank, but she fucked up. That wasn't even the woman who committed suicide. Again, she just handed the phone over.
Hospitals are responsible to keep medical files under closure, giving out this kind of information without the patients concent is a breech of trust and illegal (at least here).
The only fault falling on the nurse is believing the "prank" to be fact.
Quote:Then it is not a prank.
Ok my definition of a "prank" is to also insure that the person on whom the "prank" is played on is told after the prank, that it was a prank.
Quote:I'll be the first to say that the press goes too far a lot. They are douches to these high profile douches. The whole thing is a circle jerk of disgusting proportions. Does that make it illegal or even immoral? Nope. It's just stupid.
If one requires (and publishes) privat information through illegal methods like fraud - then it is illegal.
Quote:But none of that matters as to whether it was these people's fault. Suicide is a choice. Nothing short of blatant harassment and/or abuse can pass the buck on suicide. In this case, they didn't even harass the woman. They just asked her to put them through to another nurse, who then gave them private information. It's not their fault in the slightest. Again, they are doing something they people do all the time without the slightest problem. That something bad happened this time could not have logically been predicted.
To state that suizide is just a choice is a insane and dishonest generalisation.
Yes in the end it is a choice, but the circumstances which lead to that choice are the more importent factor in such cases.
And in the case of a depressed person alot of things can "pass the buck".
She probably could have lost her job or would have been made responsibel for the breach of trust and couldnt coop with those circumstances - maybe she wasnt even depressed befor that or even after that - but the accumilating circumstances drove her into a state of panic - thereby no harassment being involved.
I dont know, after all no one can ask her, so I can neither say that the circumstances initialy created by the two twats are responsible for her death, because maybe she would have commited suicide anyway. But it does seem to me that she felt guilty for what has happened and therefor comitted suicide.
Alltogether, I didn`t claim that they were responsible for her suicide (because I know that I cant prove that), but I do make them responsible for gaining access to privat information through frogery.
