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If that's all it were, then the trade would be "you can get this [free like beer] service if you agree to give up some personal data, otherwise you don't get th
by sib 3y ago
If that's all it were, then the trade would be "you can get this [free like beer] service if you agree to give up some personal data, otherwise you don't get the service."
As it is, the law says "You, company, must give users a service for free even if they choose not to give you the data."
- EMIRELADERO 3y agoThat's akin to taking a law prohibiting the (voluntary) sale of organs to mean that everything's free now. Some things are above the concept of "market". Personal data is one of those things. That's the ideology behind these laws.
- sib 3y ago"Personal data is one of those things" - disagree. When people say "Google isn't free, they provide it in exchange for your data" that is precisely saying that there's a market and a trade involved. You may not like that trade, in which case, don't use Google services...
- EMIRELADERO 3y agoThe mere factual existence of a trade/market does not imply governmental or societal acceptance of that market. Going back to the organ example, if you search deep enough you can probably find sites and examples of people willingly trading their own organs for vast amounts of money. Yet that doesn't stop the practice from being illegal, and in most of society's view, reprehensible. Governments exist, in part, for that reason.