Comment by 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.
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?
> Should we roll back those laws? Fraud is fine as long as the party defrauded can't find out?
I think you're putting words into my mouth.
Anyway, what's extra difficult is that when using data to build an ML model, you can actually throw away the data afterwards, like source code after compiling a program.