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Fiji's justice minister resigns after intimate video goes viral online

The minister held Fiji's justice portfolio when the clip spread across social media, and his exit leaves the government hunting for a replacement; the internet, as ever, kept a copy.

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  1. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentFiji's justice minister has resigned after an intimate video of him went viral online. With us from a minimum-security prison is inmate forty-nine-oh-seventeen, Lyle Vandersloot.

  2. Lyle VanderslootThanks for having me. I work in the library, so I read a lot about privacy.

  3. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSo how does a private video end up online in the first place?

  4. Lyle VanderslootAllegedly, in a hypothetical sense, a man records a video on a Tuesday, and his cousin borrows the phone on a Wednesday.

  5. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe cousin.

  6. Lyle VanderslootA very busy cousin. Allegedly, in a hypothetical sense, he had a cloud account, a group chat and no shame, in that order.

  7. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentBut the minister resigned. Is that the right call when the video was meant to stay private?

  8. Lyle VanderslootAllegedly, in a hypothetical sense, when you are the justice minister, the jury is everyone with a phone. I read the rule sheet. It's laminated.

  9. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentYou keep saying hypothetical. Is this about your own case?

  10. Lyle VanderslootAllegedly, in a hypothetical sense, no. Mine was a Thursday, eleven people in the group chat, and the judge got a copy. Hypothetically.

  11. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe judge got a copy.

  12. Lyle VanderslootI'd like to work in privacy when I get out. I have the experience and I have the laminated sheet.

  13. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentLast question. What's your one tip for keeping a video private?

  14. Lyle VanderslootNever film anything you wouldn't show a judge. I showed one.

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