Re:Privacy: One of the Most Fundamental Human Rights, yet Co...
by escape-big-tech on Thursday June 01, 2023 @11:21AM
(#36152407)
> GDPR was a good start.
Honestly, I agree with you, but GDPR is barely a start, it does little to actually protect people's privacy. It needs to expand a lot to be an actual weapon against surveillance
GDPR was a good start.
Creating transparency in data marketplaces, and giving people an affirmative right to have their data removed would be significant progress.
Frankly, I'd like to see the buying and selling of individualized data be made completely illegal, with massive fines for companies that misuse or otherwise fail to protect PII.
> I'm not saying that I'm immune to our societies' privacy hangups; but ideally I should be - I do think we should try and stop judging others for harmless actions.
Jesus, I don't even know how to respond to this. In essence you're saying: If there were no consequences for peoples words or actions we wouldn't need privacy.
Well, yeah.
Except there are, and so we do.