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Aral Balkan

“Data protection” is a joke and you’re the punchline.

“Data protection” assumes that data is collected to begin with and that that’s just “how things are.” It makes no attempt to change that.

What you’re looking for is data minimisation.

ar.al/2018/11/29/gdmr-this-one

Aral Balkan · GDMR: this one simple regulation could end surveillance capitalism in the EUGDMR: The regulation EU citizens deserve. No, you didn’t misread it and, no, it’s not a typo. GDMR – the General Data Minimisation Regulation – can end surveillance capitalism in the EU. The problem is that no such regulation exists. So, let’s change that, starting now. To be effective, GDMR must be succinct and precise. The essence of it can be expressed in a single article with two paragraphs:
#dataMinimisation#gdmr
Nov 26, 2021, 09:56 AM·Public·Web
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Katrina

@aral yes!! I'm in the middle of writing a paper on how technical regulation of data can solve a lot of "ethical" issues. I will cite you! 😀

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Aral Balkan

@KatrinaMatheson Neat; would love to read it when you’re done :)

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Halcek

@aral I was just reading the Brazilian General Data Protection Law that seems to, at least in writing, address this by requiring:

adequacy: compatibility of the processing with the purposes communicated to the data subject, in accordance with the context of the processing (it seems this's to prevent data reselling to third parties)

necessity: limitation of the processing to the minimum necessary to achieve its purposes, covering data that're relevant, proportional, non-excessive

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