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by Apocryphon 2741 days ago
Maybe there should be a chilling effect on the industry, and the drive to consume ever more personal data is harmful to society and wrong.
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Oh, but that's the thing, there's no regulation that can stop the consumption of personal data. Let's be clear, we are talking about bugs. The consumption of personal data will continue, because:

1. consumers want it

2. governments want it

The only thing regulation will accomplish is that only companies like Facebook will be able to do it. Yeah, big win.