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I'm so tired of this "well a real human can do it so it's okay for a machine under the control of a megacorporation to do something vaguely similar at a 1000000
by bakugo 4y ago
I'm so tired of this "well a real human can do it so it's okay for a machine under the control of a megacorporation to do something vaguely similar at a 1000000x larger scale!" non-argument.
- shadowgovt 4y ago"If I hired two million private investigators to follow around the citizens of Dallas and record everything they do, would that be illegal?" (No; if anything, it'd be a job-creation program at that point. ;) )
- googlryas 4y agoWell then people should stop putting forward moralistic/absolutist arguments and provide more nuance. Anyways, where's the limit? Is it just megacorps at 1000000x the scale that can't do it? Can a tiny company do it at 10x the scale? Can I personally do it at 1x the scale?
- mindslight 4y agoThe GDPR lays out a straightforward threshold: 2. This Regulation does not apply to the processing of personal data: ... (c) by a natural person in the course of a purely personal or household activity Once something is done commercially, it inevitably scales in frequency and continuity.
- 988747 4y agoNow the question is: if I write a web scraper that collects data from LinkedIn, and I do it on weekend as a hobby project, but I end up with personal data of 1M people is it still a "personal or household activity"?