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Today, you can choose not to drive a Tesla if you don’t want Elon Musk, Inc. knowing everywhere you go.

Tomorrow, you might have to limit where you live because you won’t live in a Google Home and reconsider having 20/20 vision again in exchange for the artificial lens company seeing everything you see.

Privacy is not something you can “vote with your wallet” on. We either protect it as a human right or we lose it altogether.

@aral Have there been any significant progress on a "Digital Bill of Rights" ?

I'm just a single dumbass and I'd really like to read what something like this would look like as legislation

@Smokinjoe We don’t need a “digital bill of rights”, we need to apply the human rights we already have to the digital and networked world we live in. Beware of people peddling new sets of digital rights. They’re usually far less than what we already have in the analog world.

@aral please explain why not

we've routinely updated the living document that is our constitution to help it be more practical for any given era

why is this one different?

Aral Balkan

@Smokinjoe Because we aren’t applying the human rights we already have. (I’m speaking from a European perspective here, where we actually have a human right to privacy. I’m assuming you’re in the US? In which case, yes, first of all you need to update the constitution to adopt privacy as a human right. You don‘t need new digital rights yet, you need to catch up to the human rights we have in some other parts of the world first.) :)

@Smokinjoe PS. My earlier point is that “human rights as applied to a digital and networked existence” is very different from “digital rights.” The rights I’ve seen stated in nearly every “digital rights” initiative I’ve seen just happen to be lesser versions of the rights we already have for some reason.

@aral Would you consider GDPR a set of digital rights?

@Smokinjoe I’d consider it regulation for protecting our human right to privacy.

@aral Where in the original analog set of privacy rights is there an example of:

Right to be Informed
Right of Access
Right to have Details Corrected/Amended
Right to Port data
Right to be forgotten

There are more, but I don't really think there are any analog rights similar to these.

(for some context, I got the above list from privacytrust.com/guidance/priv)

www.privacytrust.comPrivacy Rights of Individuals under GDPR