Defence lawyer Daniel Brookman said he was concerned about aspects of the case and the way the arrest was handled.

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Fiona Brookman, who wrote a recent Home Office study, believes that the killer or the victim (or both) are drunk in about half of all male-on-male murders.

ECONOMIST: Murder

Mr. Brookman said the FTC may have a hard time obtaining penalties from Google for violating its settlement agreement, because the law requires proof that Google acted intentionally.

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While other people testifying, such as privacy advocate Justin Brookman of the Center for Democracy and Technology, pointed out that this is a problem for consumer privacy, Weinstein just expressed jealousy.

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As Justin Brookman of the Center for Democracy and Technology points out, getting privacy wrong was also a death sentence for spyware company Claria and online advertising company NebuAd.

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"It's a pretty clear case of deception, " said Justin Brookman, director of consumer privacy project at the Center for Democracy and Technology, an Internet advocacy nonprofit that gets some of its funding from Google.

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Dr Fiona Brookman, a reader in criminology at the University of Glamorgan and deputy director of its Centre for Criminology , told BBC Wales less than 0.5% of recorded murders in the UK were contract killings, according to the available evidence.

BBC: Aamir Siddiqi