Re:Dear ICO, Sue Us
by gavinlynch on Wednesday September 05, 2012 @01:34PM
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Okay, thanks for stating flat out, right away, that you didn't take the time to understand my points or have an intelligent discussion.
That way, I can disregard your post too. I stopped reading after you told me you stopped reading my post.
Have a nice day.
> I don't relinquish my right to privacy by stepping into the street.
Yes you do. You might not be happy about it, think it's wrong and lobby for draconian laws to try and protect it. Physics and technology don't care. Someone can walk by, take your picture with a pin hole camera, upload it via tor to a torrent network.
I don't want to be stalked, period. Not turning cookies off should not mean I immediately relinquish my rights, just like I don't relinquish my right to privacy by stepping into the street.
Yes, cookies server a very valuable purpose in website development, and guest what: for those purposes the so-called cookie law (which btw covers all forms of tracking, calling it the "cookie law" is sheer propaganda in itself) doesn't affect any website in any fucking way.
This underhanded tactic of spreading deliberate misinformation in order to justify the massive violation of privacy caused by commercialized stalking disgusts me.
It's like the mafia bitching about how it's so unfair and stupid that politicians have made racketeering illegal.