@PeterJ If, based on your instance’s domain, you’re based in Australia, then you are, sadly, right. Very few human rights are enshrined in the Australian constitution to my (albeit limited) knowledge.
However, in the EU, privacy is a human right protected under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
https://www.coe.int/en/web/compass/european-convention-on-human-rights
Furthermore, people who have their privacy violated as a matter of course are the victims here. Instead of victim-blaming, we should be addressing the crime.
@aral @PeterJ@aus.social But you know very well that enforcing the #ECHR at the level of states and in the context of the digital world is not so easy - we can rarely invoke the convention directly in the courts , usually a violation of specific national laws has to be shown. And only at the end of the road are the European courts, where this convention is read directly.
#GDPR
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@miklo Indeed, enforcement is not guaranteed and requires constant vigilance. But there is a world of difference between having it and not having it. It does exist. There is case law. It does affect national legislation and laws like GDPR trace their existence back to its fundamental tenets. Lack of enforcement is an executive failure, not a legislative one. So we can – and should – talk about institutional corruption (lobbying, revolving doors, etc.) but let’s not conflate the two.