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> You don't own information about you. Data is data. This seems like a strange stance. Clearly some data is not just data and must be protected, for example To
by snomad 8y ago
> You don't own information about you. Data is data.
This seems like a strange stance. Clearly some data is not just data and must be protected, for example Top Secret information. From a broad consumer perspective, we have FERPA and HIPAA, which place restrictions on educational and health information.
Have you considered the wild west of no data restrictions was the anomaly, not the other way around? Or, are you of the mind that HIPAA and FERPA should be scrapped?
- epicmellon 8y agoWell, I liken it to window shades. You don't own the photons bouncing off of you so if someone looks in your window and the shades aren't closed, then they aren't stealing your image. If they try to circumvent the protections you put in place, that's different. Same thing with data.
- apocalypstyx 8y agoTaking such arguments all the way to the end, crime becomes only a theoretical construct that can never be practiced, i.g., the safe wasn't strong enough to withstand the explosion: the owner must not have wanted to protect the valuables within enough; someone gets killed: that individual didn't expend enough time and effort to hire sufficient body guards or invest in sufficient bullet-proof attire; a woman is raped: if she had fought back more, had known judo, had been carrying a 12-gauge pump shotgun, it would not have happened. And this completely ignores the difference in scale between a single person looking through a single window and the aggregate data of millions upon millions of human beings.
- hannasanarion 8y agoWell, I liken it to doors. You don't own the air flowing through so if someone reaches in and grabs something, they aren't stealing it. Here's a helpful tip: in our society, the responsibility is on the criminal for doing bad things, not on the individual for not going to enough lengths to stop the criminal.