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by dspillett
1201 days ago
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I come from a time when commercial interests couldn't easily stalk me and collect piles of data on my behaviour in order to eek out a few pennies more profit, and yes, do care that things have changed in a direction quite away from that. The multitude of information stored about us is used for far more than just selling too, as per reports like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35028107 so I also object on principal as well as for selfish comfort reasons. I have nothing to hide in that regard now, so nothing to fear, but I know people who would do if similar law covered where we live, and people who did have things to hide that this sort of thing would have been a danger to when other crappy laws were in force (people who were homosexual when it was still effectively illegal to be for instance), and who is to say some other law might pop up later which means I might want to hide something I now can't because every advertiser on the planet knows it and can be very easily made to reveal it? > because I find GDPR unconscionable From this I surmise that you do not understand GDPR and related legislation, and have fallen for the advertising industries attempts to turn you against such regulations by making you believe they are forced by them to inconvenience you. |
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I'm familiar with it. I fundamentally disagree with its assumptions on rights.
If you send me a letter, you shouldn't be able to compel me to shred it. If you come into my shop with a clear exoectation of security surveillance, the video should be mine entirely.
If you send my server your IP, that's my information now, and you shouldn't be able to compel me to delete it. But somehow this backwards concept of ownership has gotten popular where every individual is the perpetual tyrant of any information they leave in the world as they go through it. They can tell me to forget something they told me and now various governments will try to punish me if I don't agree to the façade. 1984 comparisons might be a cliché but this fits the memory hole analogy all too well.