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Hmmmm, I think it's a bit of an unreasonable expectation to think technology should prevent companies from breaking the law. Most meatspace laws are expected t
by diafygi 7y ago
Hmmmm, I think it's a bit of an unreasonable expectation to think technology should prevent companies from breaking the law.
Most meatspace laws are expected to be followed despite there being little to no physical barrier to breaking them (e.g. there's no physical barrier preventing me from throwing a brick through a window, but it would still be vandalism).
Why should we expect laws in software to be different? Why should the burden of compliance be shifted from the individual/company to the infrastructure?
- freeone3000 7y agoBecause enforcement is effectively impossible. When crime becomes automated, how are humans expected to keep up the pace of enforcement?
- diafygi 7y agoCrime isn't automated. Someone has to write the script that commits the crime (or I guess ultimately design the AI framework that generates criminal bots). At the end of the line there's still a human.