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You have a completely unique idea about the meaning of 'privacy', you may want to adjust your definition to the one that the rest of the world works so that we can have meaningful conversations.

George Washington's gender is of no consideration whatsoever in this discussion, so bringing it up is a variation on the theme of the strawman.




>You have a completely unique idea about the meaning of 'privacy'

I used the word private, but not privacy. I'm not 100% sure what you are getting at.

>so bringing it up is a variation on the theme of the strawman.

It was an example of data pertaining to someone. I brought it up since I didn't think the word private made sense.


The GDPR, which is what you are commenting on is all about privacy and private data shared with companies for the goal of processing with a specific purpose in mind.

Privacy and private are very well defined terms in that context, and you are adding a unique spin on it that makes fruitful discussion impossible.

'information wants to be free' is a dumb line that got passed around a lot in the 90's by people who thought that they were being clever, but it turns out that there is lots of information that doesn't want to be free at all, and some of that information is about you and you also don't want it to be free.

Your example is nonsensical, and does not further the discussion either.




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