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> Privacy laws that remove freedom and opportunity aren't very good laws. All laws remove somebody's freedom and somebody's opportunity, so either this argumen
by JadeNB 7y ago
> Privacy laws that remove freedom and opportunity aren't very good laws.
All laws remove somebody's freedom and somebody's opportunity, so either this argument is flawed or it indicates that we shouldn't have any laws.
I'm not a maximalist in allowing people to choose everything—the very notion of inalienable rights indicates something that a person cannot give up, not even by choice—but, even if I were, the problem with the current model isn't that I don't like the particular trade-offs people are making (though I don't), but that people aren't aware of those trade-offs. That, and the unfortunate confluence of companies' lack of desire to educate customers and customers' lack of desire to be educated, means that we're not really in a situation of informed choice.
- manigandham 7y agoPrivacy isn't a singular action and should be a choice, which is a fundamental part of this legislation. If you're talking about criminal laws then those are designed around harm and the greater good. There's no harm here because it's up to the individual, allows them to gain value from content, and their decision doesn't affect anyone else. Informed choice is something else entirely, but people go throughout the day making choices out of complete ignorance and that alone isn't a valid reason for preventing their freedom. Considering the relatively trivial risk, this falls well under personal responsibility. I encourage more education around privacy but am absolutely against making the choice for them, because that's how we got into this mess in the first place.