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Re:Losing the war against surveillance capitalism letting Bi... by tzs on Sunday June 21, 2020 @02:16PM (#23593983)
Under your proposed framework would encyclopedias need permission from the subjects of their biographical entries in order to include those entries?
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Re:Losing the war against surveillance capitalism letting Bi... by kelnos on Sunday June 21, 2020 @04:21PM (#23595082)
If the information is already publicly known, maybe that's ok?
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Re:Losing the war against surveillance capitalism letting Bi... by ghaff on Sunday June 21, 2020 @05:09PM (#23595426)
It's mostly the act of publishing information somewhere that makes it publicly known. If you haven't personally published it, it's personal until someone else publishes it.
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Re:Losing the war against surveillance capitalism letting Bi... by kelnos on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @11:50PM (#23623868)
That's a fair point.

In places where there are reasonable privacy protections, there is a distinction made between regular people and public figures. Perhaps public figures get weaker protections under this proposal as well?

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