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But the "bad" in that case is meaningless then if the harm from Y and Z is orders of magnitude greater than any harm that's been demonstrated from X.
by logicchains 7y ago
But the "bad" in that case is meaningless then if the harm from Y and Z is orders of magnitude greater than any harm that's been demonstrated from X.
- dmitriid 7y ago"We shouldn't prosecute thieves. The harm is meaningless compared to genocide".
- logicchains 7y agoMore like "We shouldn't jail jaywalkers, the harm is meaningless compared to thieves".
- dmitriid 7y agoIt really isn't. Data protection laws have been in place in Europe for way longer than GDPR. They all basically say this: you must protect private and personally identifiable data of people. Nearly every single tech company did nothing to protect that data. Especially the international behemoths like Facebook. Then the EU unified the different data protection laws into a single one: GDPR. And said: up until now we were lax in protecting out citizens' rights. We're gonna stop doing that now. logicchains on HN: oh my god, how can you even think of enforcing this against a poor company who offers users choice. The same company that sells private data wholesale, tracks users even if they are not present on the site, regularly breaches privacy laws, explicitly targeted teenagers for behavioural research, prevents users from permanently removing records from the service, retains data on a people even after removal from service, exposes private and sensitive data to thousands of advertisers, tracks users' locations despite opt-out, aggregates users' health data without their consent, lobbies against privacy protections, etc. etc. etc. Yes. That's exactly why GDPR exists and exactly why FB must comply with it.
- pyrale 7y agoAre you saying the harm caused by e.g. Cambridge Analytica is meaningless ?