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Search engines should treat searches on individuals as a separate, special category. Laws need to be protect personal information from Google's excuses. When fe
by writepub 7y ago
Search engines should treat searches on individuals as a separate, special category. Laws need to be protect personal information from Google's excuses. When federal laws on personally identifiable information were drafted, they weren't intended for a world where a megacorp indexed it all, and made it widely accessible, with no course for challenge.
U.S. laws need to catch up with reality.
- merpnderp 7y agoInformation wants to be free regardless of virtue of your claim, and the first amendment will make an impossible hurdle for would be censors.
- whoopdedo 7y agoYou beg the question that free information is always a good thing, and that anything which gets in the way is censorship -- in other words, evil. There are ways that information can be used to cause harm. If it were not the case we wouldn't need encryption. As a society, we must be capable of enacting laws that define when information is harmful and thus not allowed. Is this censorship? Is it evil?