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Re:Data as a Property Right by newfangle on Thursday October 17, 2019 @05:17PM (#21286437)
Unfortunately I think your view is going to become the prevailing view and the internet is going to become cable 2.0. People are just obsessed with finding corners to round.

For some reason people think comparing loss of privacy when voluntarily visiting a website to deaths caused by car accidents isnt intellectually dishonest.

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Re:Data as a Property Right by delusional on Thursday October 17, 2019 @05:54PM (#21286690)
Why would it be?
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Re:Data as a Property Right by slimed on Thursday October 17, 2019 @07:03PM (#21287165)
You're almost right.

Sure, I don't value my privacy, the security of my financial information, etc as much as my life.

But it's close.

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Re:Data as a Property Right by newfangle on Thursday October 17, 2019 @07:12PM (#21287217)
Again a false equivalence. Financial information is already protected by numerous regulations. We are talking about generic cookies that are being used for tracking user behavior for a large number of useful and benign purposes. Most of the data is already pseudonymous.
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