Privacy

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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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DNA of 15 Million People for Sale in 23andMe Bankruptcy (www.404media.co)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't think it is reasonable to expect every individual to become a privacy / legal expert. I think people should have reasonable protections and assurances given to them without needing to study the details of everything they do on a case-by-case basis.

We have laws about what food can and cannot be sold - so that individuals don't have to personally test and monitor every product for safety. Privacy & data could be done like that too.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

I don't agree with that at all, if you don't or can't understand the terms of a contract, you sign at your own peril, expecting the government to step in everytime a person decides to excercise their stupidity is authoritarian and leads to a bloated, innefficient system. This thinking just makes contracts meaningless, it just means you can claim ignorance everytime you sign into a contract you don't like.

Regulating food is whole different game for a number of reasons, i dont think it's a reasonable comparison.