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Facebook Says EU 'Right To Be Forgotten' Would Harm Privacy
judgecorp writes "The European Commission has proposed a "right to be forgotten" online, which would allow users to remove personal data they had shared. The idea has had a lot of criticism, and now Facebook claims it would actually harm privacy. Facebook says the proposal would require social media sites to perform extra tracking to remove data which has been copied to other sites — but privacy advocates say Facebook has misunderstood what the proposal is all about."
privacy advocates say Facebook has misunderstood what the proposal is all about."
Misunderstood, my ass. Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest.
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The "right not to be punched in the face" would harm health?
I think I'll take Facebook's views on privacy with a grain of salt.
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Facebook says the proposal would require social media sites to perform extra tracking to remove data which has been copied to other sites
Maybe they can start by not copying user data to other sites.
To grant one person the right to be forgotten is to deprive another of the right to remember. The sharing of information once legitimately published cannot become illegitimate just because the person involved doesn't want it to be known. The "right" to be forgotten is a form of censorship and has nothing at all to do with privacy.
"In prison you just have to shut your eyes and take it. Here you have to shut your eyes and give it."
Think twice before you post ANYTHING online. Because once its there, its there forever. Use discretion.
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Actually, it isn't far-fetched to assume that lawmakers will do something idiotic that causes a bunch of consequences they didn't intend. While I can easily see Facebook trying to language-lawyer this shit to their advantage, I'd give it 50/50 chance the law actually does imply the goofy stuff Facebook says it does.
I believe that laws should always be enforced in full and to the letter, along with all unintended consequences. This way, broken laws can be quickly identified and fixed (or repealed). It also would prevent prosecutors from selectively enforcing obscure provisions of the law to target specific individuals.
When judges and juries start making exceptions for cases that are "obviously not what was meant" we just encourage more sloppy law-making.
Fuck facebook Fuck facebook Fuck facebook They are misunderstanding on purpose what is clearly written, also they cite an impossible limitation: they cannot control what is published in other sites/social networks. Well, no one is asking to achieve the impossible, just erase my data from your cloud whenever I ask
DNT is a completely different issue - there's nothing saying the corporate stalkers have to pay any attention to your DNT setting, it's simply a request that they don't do so. As such if DNT is off by default then having it on means "I care about this issue enough to ask you politely not to track me", whereas a with default-on all it mean is "I'm using browser X", and how exactly does that help anyone?
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Please do track to which sites you are copying my information, and also please can I see the list.
Option to remove some information from specific site would be nice.
Facebook has no right to comment on this. We're talking about a person's right to privacy, not a corporation's right to privacy.
Facebook is not a person; it is a corporation. It has one end goal: to make money. Everything Facebook says is driven by that one goal. If Facebook says that the right for people to be forgotten would harm privacy, what it really means is that the right for people to be forgotten would reduce Facebook's profits.
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.... and took it upon themselves to post information about me on-line. So as a non-FB user, I have every right to be forgotten when I never gave them (the user or Facebook) permission to put information about me out there. I didn't create an account. I tell everyone I know to not put information about me on Facebook or on any social network, but when someone else takes it upon themselves to post info about me, now FB claims that they own that data.
This is where I have big issues with Privacy laws and companies who data mine and then sell that data.
Don't I have every right to be forgotten, since I went out of my way to avoid being "remembered"?
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The idiots who use Facebook deserve to be tracked.
And what of those who don't use Facebook, but for whom Facebook has created shadow accounts?
Do they deserve to be tracked too?