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We do in fact have the right to privacy in the constitution, though it is not explicitly stated as a right in and of itself. The supreme court has a large body of law stating that the 3rd, 4th, 9th, 10th imply and implicit right to privacy.

The court has historically argues whether a rational person would expect privacy in a situation. They then argue that you would expect the content of your mailbox to be private because it is your property, but not your email because that is stored on a company's web server. You would have a reasonable expectation of privacy if it was a web server owned by you, in your house, but not necessarily for the communication ot has with an isp, etc, etc • • • • •. The court has historically argues whether a rational person would expect privacy in a situation.

My problem with this line of reasoning is that what a rational person would expect can change over time. Two different but completely rational people might have very different expectations of privacy. The way I see it, the 4th amendments 'papers and effects' clearly means personal information.

It's an archaism of the language that 'papers' would have referred to correspondence and personal documents. The sale of personal information is also happening in Europe. At least in Germany the registration offices of some municipalities sell residents' information to anyone. I'm sure there are many different credit bureaus in every single European country. When a company goes bankrupt, the customer database is sold to the highest bidder. And then there's the whole advertising market.

The situation may be better than in the US, I don't know. But don't think for a second your information is immune to legal exploitation just because you're in Europe. I happen to work in the consumer data/data mining/analytics industry. So I'll answer your question with another - why would data mining be illegal? A company owns a few terabytes of data. Some very small part of it is about you.

They want to analyze that data in smart ways to discover insights about how to, say, sell you shoes more effectively. What's wrong with that? 'Data mining' isn't a problem, any more than any other business tool ever has been (ex. A photocopying machine). Irresponsible uses or applications of data can be problematic, sure, but not the process by which those owners of the data came up with them. So many problems with this statement.

(a) You build entitlements into your setup - the company 'owns' data; a part of it is 'about' you. Why not the following: you 'own' your data; the company 'takes' a part of it. (b) The 'problem' is irresponsible use or applications of data. Why isn't the problem the taking of your data in the first place? In other words, privacy ought not to be governed by liability rules, but property rules. Europe and Canada operate under rules that conflict with your set-up: individuals enjoy the initial entitlement to the 'resource' of personal information about themselves.

They have the right to control if and how it it collected, used and disclosed. Those rights are breached when their personal information is collected, used or disclosed without their consent. They do not have to wait for harm to result, or for the 'irresponsible' data-miner to come along. The problem lies in the individual's loss of control over information about the individual. Data mining is a behaviour - don't confuse it with the technologies that enable it. It isn't a photocopier, or even photocopy ing.

And, btw, if you don't think that the photocopier has been a 'problem', then do some reading on the history of collective management of copyright. There are still major cases coming out of appellate courts on this mature technology. BitcoinDark BTCD Mining Programs here. We have a basic philosophical difference of opinion here. I fundamentally do not believe that just because some piece of data is about you, that you subsequently have any ownership right to it. Moreover, there is no jurisdiction in the world that I'm aware of that comes anywhere close to establishing that legal principle.

Just to be clear - while both Canada and the EU (both as a single jurisdiction and individual member states) have stronger individual privacy regulations than the U.S., neither gives individuals exclusive ownership over any and all data about them. You're wrong there.

It's true that EU law in particular has some stronger requirements around individual consent about uses of data, though it depends on the context, but all of that is likely going to change with the new Directive coming out in late 2014/2015. Observational data about you is too abundant, and too omnipresent, to reasonably contain with some sort of personal copyright like the one you indicate. Moreover, enforcing any such system would basically be impossible. Finally, almost all systems of personal data collection are subject to some consensual agreement. Your credit card company mines your data (though doesn't share it with others, unless otherwise indicated) because you agreed to that in your T&Cs. Websites track your behavior in order to sell you stuff, and you either explicitly or implicitly agree to that when you visit their sites. Heck, even reddit tracks you with Google Analytics.

Google, Apple, MS Word - you name it. But back to the topic - data mining entails using analytical software and techniques to query large datasets to answer questions about that data, or to uncover other kinds of valuable insights, for some sort of goal - be it a business end or something else. I still don't follow what your issue with that is.

Let me respond: Philosophical differences – It’s possible we hold conflicting philosophies on privacy. My own is grounded in liberty and free speech, and the fundamental challenge ubiquitous surveillance poses western conceptions of freedom. I would hope that we share a fundamental commitment to liberty as the purpose of the political state. My argument: ubiquitous surveillance is incompatible with liberty, data mining can be a form of surveillance, and so, unchecked, data mining may harm liberty. This is not an absolute – I’m not saying all data mining is bad, nor that data mining is always bad. I’m saying that, unchecked, non-consensual data mining of personal information amounts to surveillance that threatens fundamental liberties.

Much has been written on this, and I don’t propose to rehash this – better about this than I ever could. The substantive law of privacy in non-US jurisdictions – You say I’m “wrong” about this. Well, just read the law. I’m making no extravagant claims, although perhaps shortening my description for the sake of brevity. Yes, there are exceptions and limitations, I’m talking about private sector not public sector, and only commercial dealings. But I’m not, as you say, wrong.

Here’s the core of the definition of, Canada’s commercial private-sector privacy legislation: “personal information” means information about an identifiable individual”. The legislation goes on to require consent for the collection, use and disclosure of such information. This is certainly a species of ownership right. These are property rules (Liability is strict), not liability rules (you are only liable of you harm). I’ve looked at Canada’s law because it was handy, but most jurisdictions with a substantive commitment to private sector privacy rights look similar. Most such states have built this protection on the bedrock of the.

'Property Rules' v. 'Ownership' - Don’t transpose my observation that most western states apply “property rules” to personal information to mean that individuals “own” their personal information, in the same way that land may be owned. I did not say that, but regardless, that kind of argument doesn’t get us any further. Do we “own” land the same way we “own” cars? What about how we “own” copyright?

Or how we “own” a taxi license or “own” a trade secret or a reputation? The word “own” may describe many shades of entitlement. My point is about the kinds of entitlement rules we apply to regulate access to any given resource, and about the interests protected by our choice of rules. For privacy, liability ought to be strict – it should not depend upon “irresponsible uses” of personal information your original comment posits as the only 'problem' with data mining. Ubiquity and enforcement - It is interesting that you point to copyright. Virtually all content on the internet is subject to copyright.

We have come up with rules to make this work. They are not perfect. But they are functional. On the privacy side, we have seen a bit of a “gold-rush” to scoop up personal information over the past half decade. It is early days to see how we will react as a society. Will the US change its laws to promote greater protection of privacy against private commercial sector interest? I suspect it would take class actions and judicial activism to do this – Congress is dysfunctional on issues characterized by assymetrical commercial interests.

But even Facebook was forced to revamp its privacy practices (oh so moderately, alas) in the face of. Data mining may be ubiquitous, but that does not mean its harms evaporate. If anything, they are magnified. Consent - Your final point on consensual agreement is actually my argument, not yours – all of these sites and services need your consent to gather personal information. The law at present generally accepts web-wrap and consent to terms of use as sufficient to obtain necessary consents, although more sensitive information will require a more active form of consent.

One might take issue with whether or not this is true consent, or whether the law should do more for citizens here, but that is a different discussion entirely. Yes I am free to go to cash, and I may because I don't think merchants have the right to track my spending and I'm getting tired of my privacy being infringed. The merchants 'own' data that is tied to how many screwdrivers (say) that they sold today. What were the peak selling hours for screwdrivers.

How many screwdrivers were sold in this lane and/or by this checker. Were other products purchased in conjunction with screwdrivers. Was there any correlation between screwdrivers and the other products. If I sign up for a shopping rewards program, than I am allowing the merchant to keep and track my data. It would be nice if there would be different levels of this. Basic level would keep only the amount spent and reward me for that.

The next level could do that, plus maybe coupons for things I buy. And the sooper-deluxe level could make suggestions for things it thinks I may want to purchase. Because privacy is inherently valuable to people. It's a big part of our culture-there are some things you do and say only in private. When you make it profitable to spy on people who think and feel they are in private, you are taking that away from them. You don't even need the 'it's a bad idea to log and store the tiny actions of every citizen it's possible to track because someone will inevitably abuse that data' argument.

The reason it should be illegal is because, for some people, the only motivation they need to monitor and datamine their entire user base is because they want to sell shoes a bit more effectively. Of course you want to monitor and mine the data from your entire user base. That's what businesses (particularly retailers, but certainly not exclusively) have been doing as long as it's been technically feasible. The question is who is doing the mining?

I can't imagine any reasonable argument against a grocery store chain mining its loyalty-program purchasing data for trends on buying patterns. I'm sharing my purchasing data with the grocery chain anyway, so I don't have a good argument about that not being a reasonable/foreseeable use of data about me (note: not 'my data,' which connotes a sense of ownership). But I would have a serious problem with the grocery chain sharing my purchasing history with, say, my health insurer without my permission. That is not a reasonable use of my data that I had agreed to, and that is certainly against the law today.

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