← Back to context Comment by personjerry 5 years ago You can't stop data collection, people will just do it in secret. 7 comments personjerry Reply finnthehuman 5 years ago You can't stop murder either.Perfect enforcement of rules is rarely a goal of policy. It just sets expectations for behavior, and when violation of policy becomes known remedial and/or punitive measures can be taken. personjerry 5 years ago The difference is that murder is detectable. If I collect data on your traffic and improve my software using that data, no one will know. finnthehuman 5 years ago You know that there are already things that are illegal in business but require that business' records to prove, right?Should we roll back those laws? Fraud is fine as long as the party defrauded can't find out? 1 reply → fsflover 5 years ago It just must be illegal without real consent. See: GDPR. lightgreen 5 years ago Google/Twitter/Facebook are the same in EU. GDPR barely changes anything in this case. fsflover 5 years ago Enforcement is a totally different thing though. The law itself is good.
finnthehuman 5 years ago You can't stop murder either.Perfect enforcement of rules is rarely a goal of policy. It just sets expectations for behavior, and when violation of policy becomes known remedial and/or punitive measures can be taken. personjerry 5 years ago The difference is that murder is detectable. If I collect data on your traffic and improve my software using that data, no one will know. finnthehuman 5 years ago You know that there are already things that are illegal in business but require that business' records to prove, right?Should we roll back those laws? Fraud is fine as long as the party defrauded can't find out? 1 reply →
personjerry 5 years ago The difference is that murder is detectable. If I collect data on your traffic and improve my software using that data, no one will know. finnthehuman 5 years ago You know that there are already things that are illegal in business but require that business' records to prove, right?Should we roll back those laws? Fraud is fine as long as the party defrauded can't find out? 1 reply →
finnthehuman 5 years ago You know that there are already things that are illegal in business but require that business' records to prove, right?Should we roll back those laws? Fraud is fine as long as the party defrauded can't find out? 1 reply →
fsflover 5 years ago It just must be illegal without real consent. See: GDPR. lightgreen 5 years ago Google/Twitter/Facebook are the same in EU. GDPR barely changes anything in this case. fsflover 5 years ago Enforcement is a totally different thing though. The law itself is good.
lightgreen 5 years ago Google/Twitter/Facebook are the same in EU. GDPR barely changes anything in this case. fsflover 5 years ago Enforcement is a totally different thing though. The law itself is good.
You can't stop murder either.
Perfect enforcement of rules is rarely a goal of policy. It just sets expectations for behavior, and when violation of policy becomes known remedial and/or punitive measures can be taken.
The difference is that murder is detectable. If I collect data on your traffic and improve my software using that data, no one will know.
You know that there are already things that are illegal in business but require that business' records to prove, right?
Should we roll back those laws? Fraud is fine as long as the party defrauded can't find out?
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It just must be illegal without real consent. See: GDPR.
Google/Twitter/Facebook are the same in EU. GDPR barely changes anything in this case.
Enforcement is a totally different thing though. The law itself is good.