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On 27/4/17 5:23 am, John Horton wrote:<br>
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all, as a US citizen, why should I -- or a Chinese citizen, or
a Brazilian citizen -- have the right to avail myself of the
privacy protections afforded by the German government to
German citizens? Those aren't meant for me.
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<div class="gmail_default">And, after all, why should privacy
protections that apply to a minority of the world's
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Because privacy is a fundamental human right recognized in the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights and not just an artifact of EU
law. Most developed countries other than the United States have
stronger data protection laws than it does. In fact we are
currently suing the United States government, as are others, arguing
that it is in breach of the U.S. Constitution, never mind the UDHR,
for not upholding its citizens' privacy rights strongly enough. The
accident of history that resulted in a publicly available WHOIS
database doesn't establish any kind of legal legitimacy for that
aberrant practice.<br>
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