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In California, break ins and data theft at businesses (not sure about non- business accounts) are required to be reported to California residents. That law is the only reason (in many cases) that we even heard about data loss, etc - prior to that law, businesses had no reason to disclose these incidents. In fact, in some cases businesses were only notifying their California residents affected by a data theft until they were called out on it and then said, "Oh, yeah - We'll notify the people in other states, too" IANAL, etc.
I think we need an ammendment that says individuals own (and have copyright rights to) their personal info, their DNA and their other physical and electromagnetic (brainwaves, EKGs, etc) properties.
What if someone lost a disk with private information about a bunch of our corporate citizens? They'd be strung up immediately. These clowns (corps, not reddit) own and profit from owning our personal info.
Comment by latortuga at 15/12/2006 at 09:22 UTC
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You seriously just suggested copyright over your own personal information? I mean...seriously? You do know that copyright is for creative work right? An AMENDMENT? Are you off your rocker?