> A primary school might put photos of the children with serious allergies on the wall in the cafeteria. They don't put that info on their web site.
Alright. But a schoolteacher can take a photo of herlsef, alone at home, and publish it on her own personal website. This is basic freedom of expression.
Will this action create some problems? Probably yes. A stalker neighbor of the teacher may learn where she works due to this website and attack the school and take hostages, or whatever crazy thing. Does this mean that it is OK to forbid schoolteachers to publish their own photos on their own websites? No. That would be an unacceptable attack on freedom of expression.
I like your example with the photos because, in the end, a photo and your DNA are a similar kind of information. Whatever the consequences, you have the right to publish your own.
I don't think photos and DNA are particularly similar. There's the critical difference that DNA from a person provides a mass of easily applicable information about that person's close relatives, information that is not displayed in public like somebody's face is. If this discussion has a point, that's the whole point of it, but you've missed it or are choosing to deliberately ignore it.
Alright. But a schoolteacher can take a photo of herlsef, alone at home, and publish it on her own personal website. This is basic freedom of expression.
Will this action create some problems? Probably yes. A stalker neighbor of the teacher may learn where she works due to this website and attack the school and take hostages, or whatever crazy thing. Does this mean that it is OK to forbid schoolteachers to publish their own photos on their own websites? No. That would be an unacceptable attack on freedom of expression.
I like your example with the photos because, in the end, a photo and your DNA are a similar kind of information. Whatever the consequences, you have the right to publish your own.