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A legislative body writing something down doesn’t mean society has agreed to it.

If someone journals and writes down everyone they met with locations and dates, they will laugh you out of the room if you tell them they are violating GDPR.

This also leads to stupid shit like people not being sure if they can point a camera at their driveway to catch vehicle break-ins.

Finally, classifying something as “personal data” because it’s about me still doesn’t make it “my data”.

Health data in the US is strictly regulated, very personal, but is definitely not mine. I cannot remove things from it or prevent it from being shared between healthcare institutions.






You seem not to know much of anything about the laws regarding personal information in the US or Europe.



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