[afpx]

When using personal data is outlawed, only the outlaws will use personal data.

What about all of the state actors (and 'hackers') who are cracking corporations for data and building a massive database on everyone?

[chias]

> When using personal data is outlawed, only the outlaws will use personal data.

This argument only works if you feel the thing being outlawed is good (it is most commonly used in the context of privacy). To your statement I would respond the same way as I would respond to "When shooting people is outlawed, only the outlaws will shoot people": sounds good to me!

[afpx]

I meant, in jest, that if laws get tougher on the private sector, I hope that the government also throws a lot more money at data crime, too.