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 8 months 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”.???

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lmm 8 months 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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dylan604 8 months ago | parent [-]

Every site that puts up a cookie banner is interfering with my doing what I want.

	▲	lmm 8 months ago \| parent [-]
		OK but that's the sites themselves doing it. If every shop puts an annoying greeter on the door or something, that's not something you would call the police about.