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It isn't "your data". Which pages you have viewed on my website is my data. It relates to you but is does not belong to you.

You don't have any privacy right to control data that belongs to other people and happens to relate to you. Privacy is about the state needing a warrant to enter your home and search it or to wiretap you. The idea it has anything to do with information you GIVE to websites by visiting them is a complete delusion.

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I'm glad the EU and most Europeans disagree with you. Because this take is just wrong on so many levels and I'm not sure where even to begin.

ie. you have an instant emotional reaction but no actual arguments.

European law has established various rights regarding data concerning an individual since 1981.

Thankfully European statutes don't have anything to do with what words actually mean in the English language and don't override basic logic.

The idea that you have the right to control eg. my opinions about you, just because they happen to concern you, is fundamentally contrary to the most basic right we all have: freedom of expression. The cornerstone of civil and political rights.

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