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Re:US telcos appear to be selling non-anonymized access to c... by jackweirdy on Sunday October 15, 2017 @02:01PM (#15478230)
Privacy is a fundamental right of EU residents (it’s in the fundamental charter)
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Re:US telcos appear to be selling non-anonymized access to c... by auxbuss on Sunday October 15, 2017 @04:42PM (#15479195)
It's Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_8_of_the_European_Conv...

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Re:US telcos appear to be selling non-anonymized access to c... by Feniks on Sunday October 15, 2017 @05:30PM (#15479406)
Yep, my operator isn't allowed to give out any information without my written consent. And you actually have to OPT IN for the phonebook service. Most people don't.

And the sky hasn't fallen, my service is quite good and the telcos are still making profits.

Thing is,the US Constitution as brilliant as it is was written a long time ago and nobody wants to update it. And Capitol Hill seems preoccupied.

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Re:US telcos appear to be selling non-anonymized access to c... by KekDemaga on Monday October 16, 2017 @12:47PM (#15484632)
Don't want to remind the states that they have the option, they might vote in term limits or remove money from politics.
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Re:US telcos appear to be selling non-anonymized access to c... by techpop10 on Sunday October 15, 2017 @10:48PM (#15480543)
Which is why every European country except Germany has dozens of cameras on every corner?
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Re:US telcos appear to be selling non-anonymized access to c... by kbart on Monday October 16, 2017 @05:20AM (#15481877)
But (at least in most countries) these records are only available to police and with written request, one by one basis.
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Re:US telcos appear to be selling non-anonymized access to c... by g-b-r on Monday October 16, 2017 @02:39PM (#15485603)
or to anyone connected to the internet
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Re:US telcos appear to be selling non-anonymized access to c... by kbart on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @01:16AM (#15488838)
You can't leave unprotected access by law, because you, as a camera owner, are responsible for personal information stored as a record. If you talking about hacking, I wouldn't worry too much -- anything can be hacked and there are much more cost effective ways to obtain personal information in millions than hacking cameras one-by-one.
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Re:US telcos appear to be selling non-anonymized access to c... by g-b-r on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @08:34AM (#15490384)
You can't leave unprotected access by law

Yeah, nice theory :)

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I wouldn't worry/care about individual hackers, but even if you have complete trust in everyone who has or will have legal access there are a lot of organizations for which hacking cameras one-by-one (even if hacking is actually needed) is well worth the effort.

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Re:US telcos appear to be selling non-anonymized access to c... by SamBoogieNYC on Monday October 16, 2017 @02:36AM (#15481299)
This is simply false
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Re:US telcos appear to be selling non-anonymized access to c... by g-b-r on Monday October 16, 2017 @02:40PM (#15485608)
Do you have any substantiation of "except Germany"?
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Re:US telcos appear to be selling non-anonymized access to c... by ceejayoz on Sunday October 15, 2017 @11:16PM (#15480612)
Those corners would be public spaces, right?
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Re:US telcos appear to be selling non-anonymized access to c... by g-b-r on Monday October 16, 2017 @03:05PM (#15485789)
You have a messed-up idea of privacy, there can be various degrees of it and having a few people see you in a certain place at a certain time has a slightly different impact than having someone (potentially) analyze what you do in a large amount of your life, even if that happens in "public spaces".

I know your idea is the same as that of the USA law, but that really doesn't make it right

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