Genuine question on your perspective , I found and serve a picture of you and your wife having a meal that you once posted on myspace.

Does that make it my data? If not why? What makes these 1s and 0s uniquely yours?

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SoftTalker 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

When you posted the picture to myspace under the terms of their user agreement you granted them unlimited rights to redistribute that image to anyone in the world.

If you care about privacy don't post private stuff online.

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tom1337 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'd say that it'd be your data but you might not be the copyright holder. But if the data is on a storage media that you own, I would consider it your data.

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streetfighter64 6 hours ago | parent [-]

That's a very weird definition of "your data" that goes against e.g. the GDPR definition, etc.

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randallsquared 4 hours ago | parent [-]

If the GDPR is wrong, it's not the first time. See Lysenko.

	▲	streetfighter64 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Lysenko as in the Soviet scientist? I don't really see what, if anything, a mistaken belief about evolution has to do with legal or moral definitions about ownership of data. Saying "Lysenkoism is true" is factually wrong, but saying "physical possession is equivalent to ownership" is just a very fringe political opinion. So I don't see how "the GDPR" can be wrong, unless you mean it in the sense of "the death penalty is (morally) wrong", which is just your opinion in that case. My point is this: If your insurance provider, for example, obtains access to your medical records, and store them on their servers, does that make it "their data" to use as they please? This would imply that: > But if the data is on a storage media that you own, I would consider it your data

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scotty79 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yup. That's your data now. And also mine (if I have a backup) and also myspace's.

The fact that makes it your data is that you physically can share it with someone else.

At least that's the value system I live by and I believe should be in place for all because it perfectly reflects the reality of what happens with ones and zeroes.

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andai 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_disput...

Tangential but, if a nonhuman takes the photo, that makes it public domain, right? (In this case a monkey, or maybe in the case of a robot?)

Or is it different if there's a human in the photo?