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Originally Posted by Feuer Frei!
“European privacy rules are crystal clear: a person’s information can only be used with their prior consent,”
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Written words on paper are one thing. What really gets done, is something very different. And when an offender does not need to fear to get caught, it really becomes hopeless very quickly.
I think we should have a scheme to follow, that is to only have laws whose strict enforcement we can guarantee. That way it would be easy to see where our communal deficits with law and order, crime and violation of mandatory rules are. It would also dramatically cut the biblical flood of laws and rules and regulations thatour bureauicratic societies are plagued by - and the many special cases and exceptions from these rules.
Rules are useless, if you do not control and enforce obedience to them - at least to a degree that is such that it discourages any wannabe-offender. Any offender, private person or state or corporation, must base on the assumnption that he will get caught and will be sanctioned. The costs of offence must in general deny any benefits one could expect to gain in case of intentionally violating rules.