[delecti]

I certainly respect your desire for no businesses to have certain pieces of of your personal data, but there's a difference between "I don't want to be a customer of certain kinds of businesses" and "such businesses shouldn't exist at all".

And beside that, regulations that effectively result in prohibiting certain kinds of businesses even though they don't explicitly do so are bad regulations IMO.

[xg15]

> but there's a difference between "I don't want to be a customer of certain kinds of businesses" and "such businesses shouldn't exist at all".

There are companies tracking the SSID of my phone with wifi beacons to find out which stores I was physically visiting. How do I opt-out of that?

Sorry to bring the tired "you're not the customer, you're the product" line, but the way the industry is set up today, I'm starting to doubt there is so much difference between the two options.

Tracking and data collection is baked into so many services nowadays that you'd have to be extremely attentive as a consumer to avoid any tracking - also be prepared to face a lot of inconveniences and restrictions. If possible at all.

[toomuchtodo]

I understand your sentiment, but we’ve swung so far towards the unrelenting abuse of consumer data, I’m supportive of regulation through any means necessary.

To your point, if a business is not explicitly banned, but banned because of regulation about what that business can do, that’s exactly the sort of regulation we want. We don’t dictate your business specifically, just what you can and can’t do with the data. If you can operate within those regulations, congrats!

[xg15]

* MAC, not SSID. Pardon.