Privatheit wider Willen?

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Competent adult internet users voluntarily disclose vast amounts of personal data. As such disclosure can cause great harm, governments may feel that through minor interventions they can protect their citizens from disclosure that is not in the latters' best interest. However, such actions can infringe upon the rights of the users' and of the data collectors', and are only licit when justified. Neither the German nor the US government has the duty or the power to coerce the privacy choices of competent adult users for the sole purpose of protecting them against dangers caused by themselves. Instead, it is suggested that governments should focus on limiting specific harmful disclosure.
Competent adult internet users voluntarily disclose vast amounts of personal data. As such disclosure can cause great harm, governments may feel that through minor interventions they can protect their citizens from disclosure that is not in the latters' best interest. However, such actions can infringe upon the rights of the users' and of the data collectors', and are only licit when justified. Neither the German nor the US government has the duty or the power to coerce the privacy choices of competent adult users for the sole purpose of protecting them against dangers caused by themselves. Instead, it is suggested that governments should focus on limiting specific harmful disclosure.

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Barbara Sandfuchs
Studium der Rechtswissenschaft; ehrenamtliche Vollzeittätigkeit als Präsidentin der European Law Students' Association Deutschland; Visiting Researcher, University of California at Berkeley; Visiting Scholar, Stanford Law School und University of Pennsylvania; 2015 Promotion (Passau); 2013-16 Lehrbeauftragte an der Universität Leipzig; Rechtsreferendariat am Oberlandesgericht München.

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