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The offline world is the world you are by default, you can't choose to put your house elsewhere. On contrary, when you put information on internet you choose to
by hhjj 6y ago
The offline world is the world you are by default, you can't choose to put your house elsewhere. On contrary, when you put information on internet you choose to do it there (at least for website owners...).
If you want to put restrictions on the usage of your data, make people sign a contract before accessing it.
Also a contract should not have "the public" as a party or a subset of, you should be able to identify the parties you have contracted with. Else you may end up with warrants targeting everyone or a subset of...
- IfOnlyYouKnew 6y agoA contract doesn't need to be signed. All it takes is a "meeting of the minds". Ever bought a coffee from a street vendor just by pointing at something / handing them some cash or similar? That's a valid contract. As long as people keep noticing how stupid Ayn Rand is before they come of voting age, we do have some protection against surprises: you can't just sign over your house or your first-born by clicking on a cookie banner. But I'm pretty sure Facebook could make you type "I won't scrape Facebook" into a box and it'd be (civil-law) binding.