[the_ancient]

Every Law and regulation is arbitrary, why do you believe this should be any different?

At some point we as society say "this is the line, you can go no further"

Communities create standards for behavior that are arbitrary all the time...

[Karunamon]

Are you seriously implying that you see no difference between "thou shalt not kill" and "thou shalt not analyze images of public places with anything more complicated than an abacus" ??

[the_ancient]

Nice Strawman, but murder is not the only other law on the books

We have regulations for how tall your grass shall be, what color you can paint your home, how many dogs you are allowed to have etc etc etc etc.... 1000's of aribirary rules and regulations for society.

For businesses there are even more, things like handicapped parking, bathrooms, depending on the type of business the hours or days you are allowed to be open, etc etc etc 10's of thousands of rules arbitraly defined as to what a business can and can not do

This is more akin to regulations around either medical records, or finical records both have regulations around how the data can be stored, and how the business can use it.

[Karunamon]

No strawman - you're the one that said "any regulation is arbitrary" after all :)