Same goes for “digital rights”. There are no digital rights, only human rights in the digital age. Speaking of “digital rights” and “data privacy” implies that those are separate to our human rights and to our privacy, paving the way for a different set of (lesser) protections.https://twitter.com/aral/status/957532510514184193 …
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To separate a person from their data is to strip the latter of its human rights, making it into an object to be commodified. Any rights thereupon conferred on the object will thus be lesser than those protecting the subject.
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By treating people and their data as separate constructs – one a subject, the other an object – what you end up doing is commodifying people by slicing them into their constituent bits and bytes; ready to be sold off to the highest bidder.
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And that, in a nutshell, is the business model of Silicon Valley: to digitise people and to own those digital copies.
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Art. 12 of Universal Declaration of Human Rights states it clearly: No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with their privacy, family, home or correspondence [..] Family are our contacts Web-connected smart devices live in our home Correspondence is our emails
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Yep, there’s a reason our not for profit’s registered name is Article 12.
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This point while accurate, does not sufficiently highlight that some platforms inherently have no expectation of Privacy. Such as the very one I use to send this message.
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Alas, in the EU at least, if that continues to hold through, this platform will be paying the EU 4% of its global income pretty soon. So, no, we can legislate that (and we are). It’s called regulation :)
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Could be wrong but I think there’s no privacy tort in Australia
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That rings true of a common-law country. It used to be true in Britain, until the European Convention on Human Rights was brought into British law. The right to privacy only exists here due to Article 8 of the Convention.
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People miss the point so often. Invasions of ‘data privacy’ matter because they interfere with our lives. Not our ‘data lives’. Our lives.
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This is an extreme point of view. No absolute right of privacy can be claimed. Even fundamental rights are subject to reasonable restrictions and due process.
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SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!
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Interesting. Also consider the impact of logged but _incorrect_ data about me. Does this "belong" to me also?
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It's attempt to block information under RTI..
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Grt say, data is vulnerable of misuse.
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