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> Constitutionally, privacy is a pretty cut-and-dry concept You clearly don't understand the US Constitution or existing US law. Saying it's cut-and-dry doesn'
by jack9 11y ago
> Constitutionally, privacy is a pretty cut-and-dry concept
You clearly don't understand the US Constitution or existing US law. Saying it's cut-and-dry doesn't make it so.
> Information is either private or not
I'm sorry, I made a mistake. You don't understand privacy as a concept at all. Privacy is about access controls.
What's more all this frothing about privacy is not the issue under consideration. The issue is about extranational data being subject to US law because the legal entity in control of the data, is a US company. Other countries have similar requirements (Want to run a cloud service in China? Set up shop in a chinese data center, no AWS for you), and it makes sense to me as a nationalistic interest. What's more, you have these companies deflecting HARD "timeless values should endure. Privacy is a timeless value" which is a red flag. I don't care that the French have a firm grasp of privacy, this is a US issue. These companies are free to leave the US if they really believe this is wrong (they wont).
- apu 11y agoPlease be civil. BTW, the person you're replying to is a lawyer. Are you?
- cthalupa 11y ago>BTW, the person you're replying to is a lawyer. Are you? I'm a unix systems administrator. That doesn't mean everything I say about unix systems is right. I'm not saying that said lawyer is incorrect about anything, because I honestly have no idea - but if we're asking people to be civil, we should also probably refrain from logical fallacies and defend him on the merit of his statement, and not his job title.