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Re:USA needs law 'a lot like GDPR' says Salesforce CEO Marc ... by jellicle on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @11:03AM (#17188220)
You also oppose copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret and official secrets laws, I suppose. DATA IS DATA. There's no nuance possible. It's just DATA, completely removed from the human realm.
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Re:USA needs law 'a lot like GDPR' says Salesforce CEO Marc ... by epicmellon on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @11:09AM (#17188266)
Patents, yeah. Copyright and trademark are really about fraud than theft. Trade secrets are trade secrets: the violation comes from trying to circumvent security, not having the data itself. So I'd say it is very nuanced ;)
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Re:USA needs law 'a lot like GDPR' says Salesforce CEO Marc ... by coding123 on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @11:25AM (#17188422)
In copyright law you can still be caught holding illegally some data you obtained even if you did not personally steal the data and was simply given to you by the thief.
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