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Re:The law depends on compute power by tedunangst on Saturday July 30, 2016 @12:44PM (#12193668)
SSN is only one example. All your medical records, your entire genome can be represented as a number. Does that suddenly make it acceptable to publish?
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Re:The law depends on compute power by lisper on Saturday July 30, 2016 @02:22PM (#12194062)
Any information can be rendered as a number. The whole idea that there's something special about numbers that makes them different from other kinds of information (i.e. it's OK to publish this "because it's just a number") missed the point rather badly.
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