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You can't stop data collection, people will just do it in secret.
by personjerry 6y ago
You can't stop data collection, people will just do it in secret.
- fsflover 6y agoIt just must be illegal without real consent. See: GDPR.
- lightgreen 6y agoGoogle/Twitter/Facebook are the same in EU. GDPR barely changes anything in this case.
- fsflover 6y agoEnforcement is a totally different thing though. The law itself is good.
- finnthehuman 6y agoYou can't stop murder either. Perfect enforcement of rules is rarely a goal of policy. It just sets expectations for behavior, and when violation of policy becomes known remedial and/or punitive measures can be taken.
- personjerry 6y agoThe difference is that murder is detectable. If I collect data on your traffic and improve my software using that data, no one will know.
- finnthehuman 6y agoYou know that there are already things that are illegal in business but require that business' records to prove, right? Should we roll back those laws? Fraud is fine as long as the party defrauded can't find out?
- personjerry 6y ago> Should we roll back those laws? Fraud is fine as long as the party defrauded can't find out? I think you're putting words into my mouth. Anyway, what's extra difficult is that when using data to build an ML model, you can actually throw away the data afterwards, like source code after compiling a program.