These privacy laws could be really damaging to progress. In some cases it basically makes it illegal to make a machine do the same thing as a human.
I don't automatically have a problem with that. Progress at any cost isn't something I take as "obviously good" and machines don't have rights to employment.
That's ignoring the fact that you want the machine to do it because it's not doing "the same thing", it's doing something slightly different.
I take objection to that. Far more harm is done by being conservative and resisting new technologies, than is caused by just embracing them. Every generation thinks the present is just fine and that the future is scary.
I don't automatically have a problem with that. Progress at any cost isn't something I take as "obviously good" and machines don't have rights to employment.
That's ignoring the fact that you want the machine to do it because it's not doing "the same thing", it's doing something slightly different.