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Comment by TeMPOraL

Maybe nitpicking, but:

> a fight for a fundamental right to privacy

Many don't consider this to be a fundamental right.

> A tech that takes 100 years to develop can be made illegal in a day.

As the recorded history goes, I think it was always the other way around - a new technological development suddenly invalidating a set of laws, and lawmakers playing catch-up with its use.

I wish governments of the world got their collective shit together so we could have sane privacy laws, but as it is now, technology is an important leverage to push the policymakers in the right direction. Maybe you can't focus 100% on it, but it would be foolish to just ignore it. It's the single most powerful tool we have here.

parent TeMPOraL 9 years ago

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