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Not trying to plug Andrew Yang here, but this is a big part of his platform. He's advocating for a right-to-data bill that would make any and all data collected
by Rooster61 7y ago
Not trying to plug Andrew Yang here, but this is a big part of his platform. He's advocating for a right-to-data bill that would make any and all data collected and transmitted yours.
If that goes into place, your data immediately becomes subject to these amendments. It does away with some of the legal grey area that surrounds data.
- nostrademons 7y agoCurious how this handles data that is not specifically about one person, but is about the relationships between many people? Facebook's social graph, for instance: is the fact that I am friends with someone on Facebook my property, their property, or Facebook's property? Or this conversation we're having on HN: you could argue that we each own our words, but the conversation itself (including contextual replies, quoted text, arguments responded to, etc.) is its own entity that doesn't make sense when individual posts are removed, and that's why HN has a time limit for deleting your posts. What about a crowd shot that has various other people in the background? Is it property of the photographer, the clearly-visible foreground subjects, or anyone who happens to appear in it? Does that mean someone who goes around tourist attractions photobombing people has a right to claim all your family photos?
- Rooster61 7y agoI haven't seen what would actually be in the bill, and I am curious as well. Hence one of the reasons I prefaced by saying I'm not plugging him :) Questions like these also partly explain why legislators are so reluctant to create law for such things.
- 317070 7y agoIt is the basic premise for GDPR in the EU. While convoluted (it did not end up that bad, or as bad as you'd predict), it actually delivers this idea in a workable way.