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Privacy Laws. In some countries (eg the whole EU) privacy laws about data are VERY strict and I don't think you can force them with just a license. To make an e
by yulaow 10y ago
Privacy Laws. In some countries (eg the whole EU) privacy laws about data are VERY strict and I don't think you can force them with just a license. To make an example here you must identify in a sort-of-contract who are the people who manage (in any way) the data, for which explicit purpose and for how much time. Also you have to give a way to delete it in a permanent way. And typically you cannot share that data with third parties not explicitly know at the moment in which you write the contract and the user accept it (you can't be vague, they must be people with name/surname/etc or companies).
So consider that, in most cases, your program cannot be used if there is even a single data relatable to privacy laws that it gathers (and again, here in EU even temporary geolocation is considered covered by privacy).
- andrewtbham 10y agoOk, if that's the case people from the EU couldn't use the software. I'm not sure that it would be a problem especially if the service was anonymous. So for instance... free tools for making a search engine, but you have to publish all the searches. If the searches were anonymous, I'm not sure it would be a privacy concern.
- tobylane 10y agoFacebook and many other major US tech companies comply with the EU standards for their own benefit as well as customer trust. The searches themselves are de-anonymizing, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_data_leak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_data_leak