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Law was invented specifically for this reason: to regulate behaviors into socially acceptable norms. Yes, occasionally it may degenerate (as the patent trolls

• mirimir 10y ago
  Sure, I get that. But I also love SF and fantasy. And yet, I doubt that the German laws that you cite would prevent the BND from collecting data, sharing with NSA etc, and so on.
• mojomark 10y ago
  > ...a social issue should be solved with social/legal means, not technical ones. So, say my AR software needs to scan an environment in order to function, but the law says that I cannot scan a particular "excluded" surface (e.g. a face), how do I determine which surfaces I must exclude if I cannot scan them first inorder to discern between a public surface or a protected surface? The law needs to regulate developed technology, but by the same token, technology must be developed to enable compliance with and also enforcement of the law. It seems to me that the solution is a joint legal/technical one. The third factor is the willingness of humans to comply with the law. The fourth factor is the ability of citizens & government to enforce the law. To see where all of this could lead, we just need to look at what happened with the utter failureof the "do not call registry" (1). 1.) http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_bills/2016/05/robocalls_have_triumphed_over_the_do_not_call_list_whose_fault_is_it.html http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_bills/2016/05/rob...