Re:Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law
by atonse on Thursday September 19, 2019 @03:19PM
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And what's to stop you from selling that data about what was in my shopping cart to a third party? Would you be compelled to notify me, or ask for my permission? After all, I agreed to share that with you in exchange for the product in the shopping cart. But I didn't agree to anything else.
It's not for the operator of a website to decide what is an invasion of _my_ privacy. It's for the consumer to decide. And that's precisely why we can't rely on website administrators, or the "recipients" of data to determine whether something is private.
I'm one of those website administrators who wholeheartedly welcomes something like GDPR here, even though it would make my job harder. But hey, that's fine. Putting privacy back in the hands of consumers is the right thing to do.
It's not for the operator of a website to decide what is an invasion of _my_ privacy. It's for the consumer to decide. And that's precisely why we can't rely on website administrators, or the "recipients" of data to determine whether something is private.
I'm one of those website administrators who wholeheartedly welcomes something like GDPR here, even though it would make my job harder. But hey, that's fine. Putting privacy back in the hands of consumers is the right thing to do.