Comment by stavros
1 year ago
What's a contract? What's trust, or conspiracy? What's trade, or commerce, or a foreign nation? What does "declared" mean?
This is the legal equivalent of "I can write Doom in one line, import doom; doom.start()".
1 year ago
What's a contract? What's trust, or conspiracy? What's trade, or commerce, or a foreign nation? What does "declared" mean?
This is the legal equivalent of "I can write Doom in one line, import doom; doom.start()".
> What's a contract? What's trust, or conspiracy? What's trade, or commerce, or a foreign nation? What does "declared" mean?
These have established meanings in existing law. What are you proposing as a plausible ambiguous interpretation of "declared"?
> This is the legal equivalent of "I can write Doom in one line, import doom; doom.start()".
That's two lines.
Also, it's not equivalent, because the original is actually a composition and not just a tautology. It's like saying that this one liner to find word frequencies in a file:
(from https://old.reddit.com/r/linuxadmin/comments/nq45r/what_are_...)
...isn't a single line of bash because you haven't defined fmt or sort or uniq or '|'.
> What are you proposing as a plausible ambiguous interpretation of "declared"?
Is your argument that the GDPR can be one line because "data" already has an established meaning in existing law? The GDPR is large because all these things needed to be defined, and there are tons of edge cases, not because the lawmaker figured they'd add some extra fluff in there.
It's not being verbose or well-defined which is the problem. It's that the law isn't a single well-specified requirement but rather many independent ones that each have to be complied with separately, including by people who weren't doing anything untoward to begin with.
If you weren't doing anything harmful then your preexisting behavior shouldn't become unlawful.
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