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0 pointsclavalle3y ago0 comments

The US codifying privacy as a Right.

Too many parties interested in exploiting the lack of privacy are making the lack of privacy laws painfully apparent.

When it changes, its going to be all at once.

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Codifying privacy as a right is not in the interest of corporations. I am extremely sceptical that the US government will harm corporations for something most people obviously don’t care about. The success of Facebook, Tictoc, Nest, etc are definitive proof that most people do not care about their privacy at all.

clavalleOP3y ago

I agreed with that...right up to Roe v Wade being overturned.

Privacy is going to become a very important issue very quickly as some states start to make laws that will be shockingly backward to most people. And those laws will be sticky and will require Amendment level changes to correct. To prevent an Amendment, even Repbulicans will introduce sweeping and broad privacy laws and will likely point to big tech companies as scapegoats to divert attention from their own generally unpopular activities (that play great to their base so they don't get primaried out).

Corporations are going to get swept up in the melee unless they begin to self-govern in a very real way very quickly to get ahead of this. Because every personal data player that does something can can be spun negatively will be dragged through the mud for political points from both sides.

alexb_3y ago

>Too many parties interested in exploiting the lack of privacy are making the lack of privacy laws painfully apparent.

What incentive do they have to change? If anything, this seems to suggest the exact opposite, that privacy will never be codified as a right.

O__________O3y ago

Governments source huge volumes of information from private organizations, very unlikely they would limit these organizations unless they had a way to gain the information in other ways that are unlikely to be cut off long-term.

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