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No sarcasm and I know it sounds dubious, but these are my thoughts: - live expectancy has gone up, so in 70 years it will be more likely that I am still alive
by mosselman 8y ago
No sarcasm and I know it sounds dubious, but these are my thoughts:
- live expectancy has gone up, so in 70 years it will be more likely that I am still alive
- there are and will be a lot more photographs of me than of the average person in the 1940s, probably in the thousands of times more, so the impact on my privacy of studying all my photographs is far greater than it would be for the off picture of someone in the 40s. "Here he is, dressed up, at his wedding and 10 years earlier as a child" vs "Here is a map with all the places where mosselman was seen with a social graph of all the people he was ever seen with"
- pavel_lishin 8y agoI don't want Mickey Mouse to stay copyrighted forever, and I don't want your - and by extension, my - right to privacy to extend too much further past my death.
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- mosselman 8y agoWhat 'too much' would mean is the question though. Even my original specification of 70 years might, in some cases, be too short a time. Take the holocaust for example: The nazis used privacy sensitive information like notes from jewish church meetings to find people to deport to concentration camps. So let's say that Apple, on who's servers I store my photographs, may release my images to the public once I die (assuming they can). What if there is some other totalitarian regime by then that will use those images to create a profile of me. They can then use that profile to by extension profile my children or other relatives and use that information to harm them. So I don't really agree with the no-privacy beyond death story. Since maybe you have to say that the privacy rights of my data will be passed on to my children or others who are still alive that I've had relationships with of any kind. The images in this article are probably far enough back not to be of much importance though, but maybe my idea to make a bigger study ranging to WWII was maybe a bad one with regards to privacy issues of the people in the pictures and the privacy of their relatives.
- pavel_lishin 8y agoThanks for writing that up, that's a scenario I hadn't considered.
- mulmen 8y agoWhy do you want privacy to expire? What’s the benefit? I don’t see the similarity to copyright.
- Retric 8y ago> live expectancy has gone up Lately life expectancy has been dropping in this US. https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-life-expectancy-falls-further-1543467660 https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-life-expectancy-falls-furth...