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A comment on Talk: Tim Berners-Lee on the next Web

May 11 2010: An important thing to consider is, supposing you want to try to put a stop to this and protect your 'right' to privacy (a right I argue is entirely non-existent and impossible to enforce anyway), who will you turn to? The very same institutions you fear will abuse that information, of course. If you want a law against unauthorized use of information, you're in practical terms creating a law that reads "nobody may access information without authorization except the government and criminals" - the former can do it and get away with it since nobody has a right to access records about it, and the latter don't care about the law. The people who lose power under such a law are the public.