[TomMarius]

How will laws help against the same thing, but made by unlawful people? I think it's better to accept that privacy in the classic sense is dead and adjust.

[xtian]

Perhaps we could have a group of people whose job it is to investigate and prosecute unlawful behavior.

[TomMarius]

Luckily we already have such group - but they need tools like this to be efficient against the unlawful people wielding that technology. What now?

[samoa42]

they dont need to be efficient, but effective. likewise the enforcers of law must not act unlawful.

[TomMarius]

In my native language, it's the same word. I meant it as both.

[samoa42]

i highly doubt it's the same word because it's not the same thing. consulting a thesaurus might help your understanding of the world.

[TomMarius]

Well, you can doubt it, but it is what it is: "efektivní" in Czech means both effective ("successful in producing a desired or intended result") and efficient ("working or operating quickly and effectively in an organized way") combined. Also it seems like that "efficient" in English includes "effective" as well, so there probably was no actual problem with my original comment.

Maybe it is you who should check the thesaurus and get a little more understanding of the world before posting dismissive comments.

[xtian]

No they don't.

[carapace]

I think then the issue becomes what you might call differential privacy. Do the rich and powerful get to opt out? That kind of thing.