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by blip54321 1490 days ago
Reasonable people cannot disagree about the framing of GDPR as a human rights law. The second sentence is "This Regulation protects fundamental rights and freedoms of natural persons and in particular their right to the protection of personal data."

Reasonable people can disagree about the extent to which privacy is a fundamental, human right, or where the bounds are, but that is literally the phrasing of the law.

Reasonable people can argue about a lot of issues, and views on rights change with time. Ancient Greeks and not-so-ancient Afghans had sex with kids. Just over a century ago, women couldn't vote. It's hard to predict how views on human rights will evolve. Right now, there are huge cultural disconnect about a lot of things digital. It's not clear where they'll land.