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Nine in ten Americans view data privacy as a human right according to new report
- foolzcrow 6y agoIt absolutely is a human right.
- bzb4 6y agoIt doesn’t say “human right” anywhere in the article, other than the title. Why that title?
- supercanuck 6y agoWhat other kind of rights are there?
- alehul 6y agoHuman rights are rights that every human is entitled to simply through being alive, as opposed to civil rights, which are conferred on those who are members of a society (hence voting in America was a civil rights issue). The better take here would be to simply call it a ‘right,’ as the actual report does, which colloquially for us generally refers to civil rights.
- scohesc 6y agoOne could say your data is your property, so you could say it's not a human right, but a property or legal right.
- jjulius 6y agoThe actual report that the article links to - and is based on - uses the phrase "human right" numerous times.
- xist 6y agoThis is quite odd considering how easily (and often) privacy is given away by everyone on a daily basis.
- jjulius 6y agoMost end users are not as tech-literate as you and I and more than likely don't know just how much of their own privacy they give away on a daily basis.
- renewiltord 6y agoAnother hypothesis is that there are stated and revealed preferences. Everyone thinks that they'd save children, but no one actually wants to save children. They want a nicer car.
- renewiltord 6y agoI always wonder about these polls. 15% of Americans have an IQ less than 85. How do they show up on these polls? Same as median? More? Less? Should you discount them entirely?