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by pibechorro 1173 days ago
There is no right to privacy, you either have it, or you don't. You either stay inside or go out, dress or stay nude, play with data collecting company products or dont. You may build a whole elaborate burocrazy to keep your "rights" intact, but they will corrupt and be captured by financial interest as it always does over a large enough timeline and all you will have is the illusion of privacy accompanied by the incompetence of the machination proping it up, at large expense.

If you want privacy, seek it out, refuse those that take it from you. Incuding Meta.

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In the EU it is a human right.

> The right to privacy or private life is enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

https://edps.europa.eu/data-protection/data-protection_en#:~....

The violations of these are not the responsibility of the victim. In this case they are the responsibility of Meta.

You seem to be talking about it more in line with if it was a privilege and not a right. Consider a passport, its a privilege and indeed not a right to get one. So you need to seek it out.

Rights however are not sought out, or require some kind of process to achieve them. They're available from birth.

The right to travel freely feels as much a natural right as any, if we are going down that path. In reality the only rights you have are what you are willing to fight for (and win!), or run away to another jurisdiction for. Natural rights are a fiction to make us feel better.
This is not about "natural rights" that you "feel".

These rights are written down and the law of the land.

The world isn't black and white, though. You simply don't always get these options.