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> We as European businessmen were and still are unable to generate the same kind of innovation as the US Tracking people around the internet. To follow them ev
by kartan 9y ago
> We as European businessmen were and still are unable to generate the same kind of innovation as the US
Tracking people around the internet. To follow them everywhere they go and save their personal information, their political ideology, etc. It is not innovation, that's just stepping over personal rights.
> I don't think it is about ethics, it is about control.
Yes. About giving back control of citizen privacy to the citizens themselves. It is not the government that decides who can own your data or when to delete it. It is European citizens that decide individually who should have their data and whom can not.
> EU should try to make it easier for European businesses to compete with US-based ones.
If you give away freedom for economic gain, you don't deserve either one.
- logicchains 9y ago>If you give away freedom for economic gain, you don't deserve either one. What gives you the right to deny others the right to trade their personal information as they see fit?
- claudius 9y agoWell they can of course trade it as they see fit, just opt-in to those things and be happy? What gives you the right to force me to trade in my personal information?
- majewsky 9y agoYou make it sound as though the majority of Facebook users were making a conscious decision to trade personal information, whereas the usual thought process is "it's free! and everyone's doing it!".
- logicchains 9y agoMost people simply don't care. It constantly surprises me how paranoid people in the technology community are about their social interaction and browsing data.
- the_mitsuhiko 9y agoNormal people absolutely care. They however do not have the tools or know how to. Just look at how many people were behind the facebook lawsuits in Europe to see that those are not developers.
- ionised 9y agoNew laws. What gives you the right to decide that corporations are free to use my personal information for whatever they please?