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HanaBothWays t1_jdt2ncx wrote

Reply to comment by Educational-Ice-319 in The RESTRICT Act: A Potential New Enforcement Tool to Address Economic and National Security Concerns Posed by Foreign Information and Communications Technologies by AlphaWolfDesign

> Google Analytics is banned in Germany and Italy.

Alas, Google violates this all the time and gets only relatively light fines as punishment. If what TikTok is supposedly doing is bad enough to get them banned in the U.S. then EU countries might decide that taking extreme measures is the way to go.

>Also, the US’ patchwork isn’t far off from GDPR, it’s just far less cohesive. US citizens have many of the same rights and control over their data, and have for decades in some cases.

Functionally, no. You don’t really have a choice when it comes to, say, the information that credit bureaus collect about you, because you can’t opt out, and they will up and sell that to anyone. They also don’t secure their databases that well.

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Educational-Ice-319 t1_jdt15ni wrote

Reply to comment by HanaBothWays in The RESTRICT Act: A Potential New Enforcement Tool to Address Economic and National Security Concerns Posed by Foreign Information and Communications Technologies by AlphaWolfDesign

Already happening. Google Analytics is banned in Germany and Italy. Also, the US’ patchwork isn’t far off from GDPR, it’s just far less cohesive. US citizens have many of the same rights and control over their data, and have for decades in some cases.

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lightknight7777 t1_jdswrfk wrote

Reply to comment by Geeky-resonance in The professor trying to protect our private thoughts from technology. Prof Nita Farahany argues in her new book, The Battle for Your Brain, that intrusions into the mind are so close that lawmakers should enact protections by HorrorCharacter5127

Ah, we're talking about broadcasting information and not obtaining it? Anyone would be justified to physically defend themselves from such a thing.

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Geeky-resonance t1_jdsvpjh wrote

Reply to comment by lightknight7777 in The professor trying to protect our private thoughts from technology. Prof Nita Farahany argues in her new book, The Battle for Your Brain, that intrusions into the mind are so close that lawmakers should enact protections by HorrorCharacter5127

Tech doesn’t necessarily have to read brain waves in order to violate the privacy of our minds.

Haven’t we already read about facial recognition cameras with processing algorithms fast enough to “read” micro-expressions? A quick search brought up technical discussions as well as commercial products going back several years.

If equipment and image processing software can be refined to that level, our private emotions will no longer be private while we are in range of cameras.

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