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In reality isn't this really quite simple - it's the theft of privacy. Data is the concrete thing of course, and therefore potentially useful to then put a legal framework around - but in the end it's really about the right to privacy.

The loss of privacy is done by clever joining of the dots - each individual data point in itself is often not that important. It's the activity - the joining of the dots - back to a person - which is the stalking like behaviour - that's the problem.

Ie the activity you need to regulate is the connecting of the dots back to a real world person.

Let's call it the 'Digital Stalking Act'

parent DrScientist 3 years ago

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