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What precisely is "personal data"? Can a nosey neighbor look out their window and note passersby that they recognize? Can one recognize people whose face they
by air7 7y ago
What precisely is "personal data"?
Can a nosey neighbor look out their window and note passersby that they recognize?
Can one recognize people whose face they saw somewhere (on TV, on a dating app etc) without "permission". (e.g. "I'm pretty sure I just saw my tinder match going into a bar with someone")?
What if someone has a very good memory for faces and a curiosity to match? What if someone employ scouts to report when they spot certain people?
What if someone automate these processes?
Where is the line between private informatio and publicly available raw data such as photons bouncing off people's faces?
- CarelessExpert 7y agoAt risk of violating HN's policy: it's this kind of sophistry that allows tech employees and entrepreneurs to justify their predatory behaviour... bend over backwards hard enough and you can find the logic to justify nearly anything. Let's try it! How do you define a biological weapon? If I know I'm sick and I deliberately sneeze on people, am I a weapon? If I pay people with an illness to sneeze on people, is that a weapon? What if I cultivate smallpox in a lab and spread it with an aerosol sprayer instead of using human carriers? Where is the line on what is a biological weapon? Where along the way did we go too far?
- detaro 7y agoExisting privacy laws already need and have a framework to answer this kind of questions, they are not particularly new.