I believe that law never actually took effect. Like you, I must have missed the outrage that has been expressed on these boards all these years over the status quo.zmcgooga wrote:I don't really understand the sudden outrage over this. The law that started the protection of data was only signed in OCT/NOV of 2016, so it's only been in effect 4/5 months and before that were was all the concern??
I'm not a fan of data harvesting. I'd be more sympathetic to the mock outrage if people weren't voluntarily providing:
- information on where they travel and shop to their credit card companies
- information on where, when, and how fast they drive to their EZPASS entity
- information on what they eat, how many are in their family, and whether they're pregnant to their grocery stores
- information on their medical condition, diseases, and person issues to every medical facility, pharmacy, insurance company, and employer
- information on who they write to, why, and every other aspect of their life to their "free" email provider and Cortana
If one is going to be outraged, be consistently outraged.
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- Thu Mar 30, 2017 12:16 pm
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- Thu Mar 30, 2017 12:12 pm
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Re: FCC Internet Privacy Reg canceled- good or bad?
Here, we are talking about privacy infringement by private entities, and the government not interfering. I'm not sure how this is different than allowing business owners to restrict our RKBA in their stores? In both cases, we have the option to stop doing business with the companies that are infringing on our rights. Sure, it might not be "convenient". We might not have a ton of other options. And there is even a possibility that we might have to do without a non-essential product or service. But we have the right to vote with our dollars in both cases.parabelum wrote:Bravo for yet again chipping away at our liberty. Very conservative indeed.
If BO would have pushed this, boy, we'd be flipping chairs over. But you know now, it's different. Free market thingy and such...dems bad...repubs good...
At least in this case the government is not helping the business to do the infringement, unlike with 30.06 signs.