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Originally Posted by Maggy J
Invasion of privacy?Surely that could cover it?
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There are already laws on the books to cover that.
We don't need more laws for that and the scope of this means that any such legislation needs further and more thorough analysis than just a private members bill.
On the merits I am opposed but trying to rush it through parliament like this is a total disaster.
Just on the pure philosophy of the matter (on invasion of privacy) it is a debate worth having but that will also extrapolate farther the advances of technology and the ethics of the use of it.
This was my biggest concern when Sony took out a patent for Smart contact lenses a couple years ago - it basically allows people to have hidden cameras in their eyes.
If it is a basic right of privacy then that is already covered...if you need to expand that because of advances in technology your right to that same fundamental right should remain as meretricious as it was before - the fact that variable factors effect its enforcement mean that it would have to be absolute to the extent of infringing upon the rights of others exercise of rights in the process.
Which clearly is not on.