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The first sentence was "Increasingly, I'm of the mindset that you shouldn't create data you can't destroy;". GDPR enables destruction of that data.
by maxxxxx 8y ago
The first sentence was "Increasingly, I'm of the mindset that you shouldn't create data you can't destroy;". GDPR enables destruction of that data.
- philwelch 8y agoOnce the data is out there, though, you're vulnerable. You can "destroy" it later, from the perspective of a company, by asking the company nicely to destroy it for you, but that does nothing to protect you from state actors who may have had access to the data before. In fact, a state actor would likely take "asking nicely to destroy data in accordance with the rules and regulations" as a signal of which data was the most interesting to collect and retain.
- tjoff 8y agoExactly, and one of the main points GDPR is to force companies to think twice before collecting data in the first place. Thanks to GDPR significantly less data will be out there.
- shostack 8y agoGDPR provides a legal framework through which Europeans are able to get companies to honor their wishes with data . While it has teeth, it does nothing to physically stop a bad (or unconcerned) actor from don't something you don't want with that data, and once they have it you can't put Pandora back in the box.
- Create 8y agoComputers are machines for copying data. A good computer is one that copies well, quickly and cheaply. The internet is a machine for moving copies of data around. When the internet works well, it copies data quickly and cheaply. Ideologically, this is difficult for some people to accept. If your fortune has been based on stopping people from copying information, it is an inconvenient truth indeed. If you earn your living by preventing copying, the only options are to change everything, or deny everything. Copy killers, Cory Doctorow