I was agreeing with everything until this: >>Please, don’t be stupid, PRIVACY IS NOT A HUMAN RIGHT. Privacy is at best a preference of some people; at worst, a

I was agreeing with everything until this: >>Please, don’t be stupid, PRIVACY IS NOT A HUMAN RIGHT. Privacy is at best a preference of some people; at worst, a luxury for spoiled neurotics. I believe privacy is a human right, but the problem here is that the EU bureaucrats who formulated the GDPR regime are conflating the collection of voluntarily disclosed PII with a violation of privacy rights. Warrantless searches are violations of privacy rights. So are income disclosure laws and the misnamed anti-money-laundering laws. In all these cases, non-compliance to what is essentially a morally unjustifiable invasion of one's private sphere means imprisonment or worse. A company collecting data that you choose to disclose to it when you browse the website it serves you is not. It's qualitatively no different than someone remembering PII you disclosed to them when you went out for a walk, or went to their house, or had a conversation with them. Others should not be forced to treat your actions and words as privileged information when they have never consented to entering into a privileged relationship with you.