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Californians will be able to delete all personal online data with first-in-US law
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 11 Oct 2023
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Someone correct me but how is this not a breach of the 5th amendment? The government cant just force a company to relinquish intellectual property regardless of how they got it
Edit: wow you guys are toxic. Cant even ask a question here without getting dogpilled
I don't think intimate details about a person is a companies intellectual property.
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I'm genuinely interested in your interpretation of how your personal information can be considered "intellectual property" of a data broker.
Yeah I said correct me if im wrong because I wasnt sure.
I dont know if it works like this but i would think that when you use someones app or website or connections, and this company captures your information, this makes it their property. This would be akin to someone taking photos of you without your permission and selling them as stock photos. Those photos are theirs, as disgusting as it is and I dont think the government can step in to make you give that up. Obviously this analogy doesnt work because selling pictures like this is illegal but the idea is the same because you waive your rights when you use their products.
Again, not sure if thats how that works, only have a surface level understanding here.
Information is not property unless you create it
I love your name btw. I always use that name for all my other accounts.
Is your medical and financial information your property or an insurance company's property? Is this information given to governments, by threat of law? (Yes, if that state demands it, and depending on their constitution) Does a hacker have the right to sell whatever information that they acquire from any institution, or from you? The lack of a right of privacy in the US Constitution and ancient fossils in SCOTUS and legislatures will bring us rapidly forward to 1900 any day now, to their grappling with technology.
Which is why no one mentioned or implied anything even remotely related to intellectual property. Not sure why it's being brought up, but now we can get back on topic: people's data being stolen, and then taking one small step towards rectifying that.
Intellectual property rights are granted by the state, and can be revoked as per law.
User data is not IP.
The legal owner of data about an user is (usually) the user.
Yeah r/privacy was toxic towards n00bs back on reddit as well. Sorry you got blasted for asking a question.
Thanks L33t Hax0r named 4chan.