PROJET AUTOBLOG


Richard Stallman's Political Notes

Site original : Richard Stallman's Political Notes

⇐ retour index

Privacy And Digital Rights For All

mercredi 11 novembre 2020 à 01:00

The manifesto, Privacy And Digital Rights For All, is pretty good. It would make a significant step forward, because it specifically calls for limiting the collection and transfer of data, not solely its use.

One weakness is that it calls for a "data protection" agency. The term "data protection" presumes that data gets collected and the goal is to prevent others — "the wrong people" — from getting access to it. That idea is inadequate because the business or agency which collected the data is probably also "the wrong people", which is why the goal needs to be preventing collection of the data.

Another weakness is that it does not mention the idea of requiring systems to permit anonymity — for instance, to require services (including ride-for-hire and recharging electric cars) and digitally-controlled appliances to allow anonymous use.