| ▲ | shadowgovt 12 hours ago |
| Yes, the second one. I don't really care; it's not "my" data. It's data about me. When I walk down the street and sometime sees me go by, those aren't my photons they caught. By analogy, same with my browsing history. |
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| ▲ | Zak 12 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| It is, however worth at least considering restrictions on continuously following a person in public places and reporting all their observed activities to a third party. Of course there are practical limitations on that kind of physical surveillance. It's expensive, tends to attract attention, and even nation states can only do it to a few people at a time. Information technology allows it to scale to almost everyone, almost all the time, for a small fraction of a corporate budget. Perhaps it's worth at least considering restrictions on that. |
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| ▲ | dylan604 11 hours ago | parent [-] | | > It is, however worth at least considering restrictions on continuously following a person in public places and reporting all their observed activities to a third party. I don’t see any difference between online “tracking” and real world stalking. If some one was following you every where you went taking notes on everything you did, interrupting you and preventing you from actually doing what your were actually wanting to do, you’d be able to have the police intercede in your behalf. Only now we think it is different because “on a computer”.??? | | |
| ▲ | lmm 11 hours ago | parent [-] | | > interrupting you and preventing you from actually doing what your were actually wanting to do This is the part that would get the police involved, and no-one online is doing anything like this. Doris the curtain-twitcher compiles a dossier on everyone, maybe shares it in her gossip circles. No-one cares. |
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| ▲ | rockskon 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| You are the culmination of your life's experiences. Going by your definition, one could infer an individual has zero intrinsic ownership of any non-health data. Which I categorically object to. |
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| ▲ | Aloisius 10 hours ago | parent [-] | | You have ownership over your own memories and records. Other people also own their own memories and records - some of which may be about you. At least, this is how it was for most of human history. Now some people think they should be able to demand everyone destroy records about them. If it was possible, no doubt they'd also demand people destroy any memories about them as well. | | |
| ▲ | rockskon 9 hours ago | parent [-] | | That's not how it's been for the bulk of modern history. What absolute absurdity. It's an ancap mentality taken to the notion of privacy. |
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