Your Face Is Not a Bar Code (2003)
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Your Face Is Not a Bar Code (2003)
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Re: Your Face Is Not a Bar Code (2003)
#2> A free society is a society in which there are limits on what the police can do. If we want to remain a free society then we need to make a decision
I think the amount of legislation that effectively limits privacy / freedom in the past years shows that western societies no longer want to. It includes increased bank regulations / attempts to abolish cash / hate speech regulations / surveillance regulations / GDPR etc. The question is no longer whether the private information of people should be owned by others, but about who should own it, businesses or the State.
Re: Your Face Is Not a Bar Code (2003)
#3> A free society is a society in which there are limits on what the police can do. If we want to remain a free society then we need to make a decision I think the amount of legislation that effectively limits privacy / freedom in the past years shows that western societies no longer want to. It includes increased bank regulations / attempts to abolish cash / hate speech regulations / surveillance regulations / GDPR e…
GDPR is an attempt to grab some of the power back to the individual.
Re: Your Face Is Not a Bar Code (2003)
#4> A free society is a society in which there are limits on what the police can do. If we want to remain a free society then we need to make a decision I think the amount of legislation that effectively limits privacy / freedom in the past years shows that western societies no longer want to. It includes increased bank regulations / attempts to abolish cash / hate speech regulations / surveillance regulations / GDPR e…
GDPR is an attempt to grab some of the power back to the individual.
Governments are exempt from GDPR. Further it is regulators, not individuals, who determine which data processing activities are lawful. GDPR certainly takes power away from companies, but it transfers that power to the state, not to individuals.
Re: Your Face Is Not a Bar Code (2003)
#5Earlier quoted context omitted.
GDPR is an attempt to grab some of the power back to the individual.
Governments are exempt from GDPR. Further it is regulators, not individuals, who determine which data processing activities are lawful. GDPR certainly takes power away from companies, but it transfers that power to the state, not to individuals.
While those are valid points, it does also empower the individual. Being able to ask a company for their data on me is a huge boon that's gonna change the game.
Re: Your Face Is Not a Bar Code (2003)
#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
GDPR is an attempt to grab some of the power back to the individual.
Governments are exempt from GDPR. Further it is regulators, not individuals, who determine which data processing activities are lawful. GDPR certainly takes power away from companies, but it transfers that power to the state, not to individuals.
Not exactly: law enforcement has GDPR exemption, but it should apply to other branches of government. There's a controversy over this in the UK: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/05/uk_government_legal...
Should the government be obliged to allow you to correct information that may otherwise be used to deny you residency? Absolutely.
Re: Your Face Is Not a Bar Code (2003)
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
GDPR is an attempt to grab some of the power back to the individual.
Governments are exempt from GDPR. Further it is regulators, not individuals, who determine which data processing activities are lawful. GDPR certainly takes power away from companies, but it transfers that power to the state, not to individuals.
The GDPR does apply fully to government agencies, some requirements are even stricter (e.g. they always need a Data Protection Officer). Most agencies had to alter their policies because of that. What is true that there can be special purpose laws giving a government agency the power to process some data (e.g. by tasking them with collecting some information, such as say your income for tax levying). Member states can also pass laws to overwrite portions of the GDPR for some listed purposes, such as public security but those don't apply to the vast majority of governmental data processing. Naturally, that makes the government more powerful than private companies but certainly not more powerful compared to a time before there were data protection laws.
Re: Your Face Is Not a Bar Code (2003)
#8> A free society is a society in which there are limits on what the police can do. If we want to remain a free society then we need to make a decision I think the amount of legislation that effectively limits privacy / freedom in the past years shows that western societies no longer want to. It includes increased bank regulations / attempts to abolish cash / hate speech regulations / surveillance regulations / GDPR e…
As the conventional wisdom states, China is the future. There will come a time when us Westerners will need VPNs as well.
Re: Your Face Is Not a Bar Code (2003)
#9Average end user doesn't care as long as Instagram, Facebook, et. al. keep them engaged constantly with their devices.
Smartphone's are the new crack.
Re: Your Face Is Not a Bar Code (2003)
#10Average end user doesn't care as long as Instagram, Facebook, et. al. keep them engaged constantly with their devices. Smartphone's are the new crack.
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