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0 pointsrhizome14y ago0 comments

The law has long been castrated on your points. The legal basis would be, of course, that private information is property, but that one doesn't exist in this country (yet?).

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tbrownaw14y ago

The legal basis would be, of course, that private information is property, but that one doesn't exist in this country (yet?).

Trying to apply rules made for physical items (if I take it you don't have it any more) to things that act completely differently is a really bad idea.

rhizomeOP14y ago

Humans are smart, they don't have to use the exact same laws. Like I implied, the laws don't actually exist in the US.

Would it make a difference if I had said "something akin" to personal information as property? I mean, we're reading this story, so personal information has currency in some way, right? Seems to me that with some political will that the laws can be nudged further in favor of the user.

dreamdu5t14y ago

You choose to divulge any information you consider to be private. Absent an actual formal agreement contingent upon giving that information (which an internal policy is most definitely not), I have no obligation to restrict who I share the information you chose to share with me.

Unless you're going to argue that you own anything you happen to know, even after other people know it? Unless you're going to argue that a posted policy on a free website constitutes a binding agreement?

rhizomeOP14y ago

I have no obligation to restrict who I share the information you chose to share with me.

If that was true in all cases, the story we're commenting on wouldn't exist.

dreamdu5t14y ago

How is that? Please explain how I am obligated to restrict information people freely share with me?

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tbrownaw14y ago

The legal basis would be, of course, that private information is property, but that one doesn't exist in this country (yet?).

Trying to apply rules made for physical items (if I take it you don't have it any more) to things that act completely differently is a really bad idea.

rhizomeOP14y ago

Humans are smart, they don't have to use the exact same laws. Like I implied, the laws don't actually exist in the US.

dreamdu5t14y ago

rhizomeOP14y ago

I have no obligation to restrict who I share the information you chose to share with me.

If that was true in all cases, the story we're commenting on wouldn't exist.

dreamdu5t14y ago

How is that? Please explain how I am obligated to restrict information people freely share with me?

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