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Clearly there are a lot of WTFs going on at Path, but this isn't one of them. > Do I not have a right to keep that information private? But you didn't. You ga
by polemic 15y ago
Clearly there are a lot of WTFs going on at Path, but this isn't one of them.
> Do I not have a right to keep that information private?
But you didn't. You gave it to someone else. It's not your information any more.
Information about you is not information you own.
Privacy and anti-spam laws in various jurisdictions cover what an organisation can do with information they collect about private individuals, but that has nothing to do with ownership.
- squiggly101 15y agoWhat if I gave someone my silent, protected phone number and that information was stolen by Path like it appears to have done? I may not "own" the information, but I may have rights under law for the information to be protected, and not shared without my permission. Similarly for addresses of people who may be in witness protection programs or escaping violence of some kind. The simple fact is Path stole this information without any kind of consent from the user, information it had no right to access.
- hessenwolf 15y agoIn the EU, the third party would be using personal data for other than the reason it was collected, so it is illegal.