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by kube-system 1437 days ago
“It’s hard to enforce the rule of law” is not a good reason to abandon it entirely. Data privacy laws make data privacy better even without being 100% infallible.

We should be both practicing good data hygiene and using legal tools to combat those who abuse data privacy.

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> “It’s hard to enforce the rule of law” is not a good reason to abandon it entirely.

I didn't?

> We should be both practicing good data hygiene and using legal tools to combat those who abuse data privacy.

That's what I said. The first thing is data hygiene, the second is legal requirements. The difference I think is that the legal requirements should be on the actual creation and retention of the data, not just who owns it, who it can be shared with, etc.

As soon as PII information over a certain age is radioactive and linked to a fine per person, all of a sudden there'll be a lot less giant repositories of PII to worry about.