>This ruling is more similar to rules that you are not required to wear >a badge that you spent some time in jail or need to state this in your CV.
It is a ruling that gives more power to the government, whatever the "declared goal" actually is. The actual usage of this rule is to hide blatant evidence of corruption of government officials from public sources. Werner Koch via Gnupg-users <gnupg-users@gnupg.org> writes: > On Tue, 5 Jan 2021 17:07, Robert J. Hansen said: > >> I'm doing is sharing true things with my buddy?" Whereas in Europe, >> right-to-be-forgotten laws, enforced by the government, are seen as >> wins for privacy, in America they would be (a) blatantly unlawful and > > I don't think that the right not to be listed prominently in search > results is related to privacy. This ruling is more similar to rules > that you are not required to wear a badge that you spent some time in > jail or need to state this in your CV. > >> In Europe it's a lot different. There, the prevailing culture cares a >> lot more about limiting the ability of businesses to learn things about >> a person than with limiting the ability of governments. The national > > Like all over the world governments work on terminating all rules which > limit their power. It seems to be a never-ending task to counter that. > > Speaking of Germany: There are a lot of barriers between administrative > entities to share data - there is not even a central database of all > citizens. There is no shared access between the databases of the police > and the spooks. The spooks tried to tell us that it is okay to > eavesdrop as long as no German citizen is part of the communication but > courts declared such a workaround as illegal. But yes, all these laws > and rulings wind up faster and faster :-( > > > Shalom-Salam, > > Werner -- Vladimir Nikishkin (MiEr, lockywolf) (Laptop) _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
