Re:New EU data blockage as German court would ban many cooki...
by Barrin92 on Monday December 20, 2021 @04:35PM
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>so what does blurring it on Google Maps give the residents, privacy-wise?
ephemerality. If you think your neighbor is violating your privacy you can take it up with them, you think you can take on Google? There is no incoherence here. If you live in a neighborhood, there are of course certain natural limits to your privacy given that you're part of a community.
But digital privacy laws first and foremost protect citizens from entities well beyond their control, they protect them from automated processing, storage of their data beyond their own borders, and privacy erosion in ways they cannot control and at a scale that creates entirely new problems. Of course nobody has absolute privacy, everyone can overhear a conversation, but this does not end with a surveillance state or control society. Corporate entities or governments processing billions of messages in real time does.
ephemerality. If you think your neighbor is violating your privacy you can take it up with them, you think you can take on Google? There is no incoherence here. If you live in a neighborhood, there are of course certain natural limits to your privacy given that you're part of a community.
But digital privacy laws first and foremost protect citizens from entities well beyond their control, they protect them from automated processing, storage of their data beyond their own borders, and privacy erosion in ways they cannot control and at a scale that creates entirely new problems. Of course nobody has absolute privacy, everyone can overhear a conversation, but this does not end with a surveillance state or control society. Corporate entities or governments processing billions of messages in real time does.