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The French system for protecting personal information should be a model for the rest of the world imo. (As an Englishman it pains me to say that) A company ca
by abritinthebay 9y ago
The French system for protecting personal information should be a model for the rest of the world imo.
(As an Englishman it pains me to say that)
A company can never really “own” your data there. It merely can be lent it for very specific purposes. Using it outside of those purposes is punishable by law and that permission can be revoked.
It’s very pro-citizen.
- rihegher 9y agoWell here this is the CNIL threatening to fine Facebook. The CNIL does not have much power though, and the worst that may happens for Facebook will be to be fine a few thousands euros.
- laurent123456 9y agoSince 2004 they can fine up to 3 000 000 € [0]. Still not much for Facebook but better than a few thousands. More importantly, assuming the CNIL has a case, I assume Facebook has an obligation to comply (I guess they can't just pay the fine and keep doing whatever they were doing). [0] https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?cidTexte=JORFTEXT000000441676&dateTexte=20040807 https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?cidTexte=JORFT...
- coliveira 9y agoThis should be the law everywhere. The US, on the other hand, believes it is OK to provide ALL your personal information to big companies, see the debacle of Equifax that exposed data from most Americans to hackers throughout the world.
- 24gttghh 9y agoI hate to defend the credit agencies, but I believe you are referring to Equifax who had the enormous leak of "customer" data earlier this year, not Experian.
- coliveira 9y agoThanks, fixed it.
- pitaj 9y agoUnpopular opinion: information should not be the property of anybody. You don't own your data, you own what it is stored on. Copyright, Patents, and other IP law is invalid application of property rights and nobody should be able to say how anybody uses data they possess with the exception of preemptive contractual agreements.
- tomaskafka 9y agoOK. Here's a public album of your home porn on imgur, it has 0.5 M views today. No recourse for you. Happy?
- abritinthebay 9y agoIt’s... an opinion. One that doesn’t make a ton of sense once you follow it through everywhere, practically speaking, but as an ideological point... sure, I get it.
- pitaj 9y agoCan you give a few examples of it not making sense practically? I understand the reasoning behind patents and copyright, but in practice they are abused and at this point almost dead anyways.