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No, it is quite simple. You should not gain any right to control information just because the information happens to be about you.
by caskance 11y ago
No, it is quite simple. You should not gain any right to control information just because the information happens to be about you.
- chinathrow 11y agoTough question, but why not?
- Goronmon 11y agoFreedom of speech.
- ghaff 11y agoLeaving aside implementation practicalities (i.e. the great difficulty of putting the genie/information back in the bottle), it boils down to where someone balances an individual right to privacy relative to the right of other individuals/organizations to say/write whatever they want modulo rather narrow constraints (in the US).As a philosophical matter, I'm not sure there's a right answer and the corner cases are always going to be hard. (e.g. the availability of photos of drunken teenager antics do not exactly contribute to public knowledge/culture/etc. but can potentially be quite harmful for the person in question).