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Texas Is Enforcing Its State Data Privacy Law. So Should Other States (eff.org)
104 points by hn_acker 1 day ago | hide | past | favorite | 18 comments





I don’t get enough chances to say Go Texas… but Go Texas! Glad better privacy laws are bipartisan policy now!

Colorado data privacy laws are a joke. The plebs are unable to take action against companies who violate their data privacy, only the Colorado Attorney General can do anything.

I thought citizens are allowed to request companies to delete their data? Similar to CA’s CCPA laws. I likely hold a similar opinion as you. Most of these laws are tokenism considering the harms done real or implied.

Great. I would love to see this. Mostly I want to see companies be forced to offer their service with explicit opt outs of data collection AND data sharing as part of signing up. There is great danger in everyone having their private information stored in so many companies’ systems. All it takes is one leak to subject that person to fraud.

Do you want the version without data collection/sharing to still be free?

Yes. An option to pay should be the same regardless of data sharing.

Yes, and ad-free, too, while you're at it, thanks :)

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i'm curious which laws you believe are not selectively enforced.

Maybe the laws of thermodynamics?

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Good point, no human is absolutely perfect so that makes them interchangeable.

Ah yes. 80s republicans versus a fascist deathcult.

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I'm not sure how you visually identify LGBTQIA people, but a quick search of crowd photos shows the almost entirely white crowd I'd expect at a political conference.

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Well, gay and trans are 2 of the 7 letters, but I think you realize that the people who watch that content don't necessarily identify with the acronym. Even people who participate in same-sex relations don't necessarily identify with the label, hence medical terms like MSM (men who have sex with men).

People who identify LGBT are famously one of the most staunchly Democratic voting blocks in the country. You could still fill a conference with the remainder, but I don't think that's the argument you're making, is it?


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Political bias aside, is that because Tesla has that data collection info in their customer agreements?

Personally I don't believe overly complex agreements are valid, and should have an opt out, but the American regulations typically seem less consumer friendly than other places (mostly the EU)


I would say that's hardly an agreement rather than a coercion

Agree to this or you can't buy it


I'm pretty sure tesla's car insurance company mines data from tesla's cars to set rates.

Even if your assertion is true, it still wouldn't be "Wrong" w.r.t "enforcing its state data privacy law"

selectively enforcing



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