[egypturnash]

Gotta start somewhere, if they were going after everyone then everyone would be throwing money at trying to stop it.

Also apparently this new law is modeled on a federal law against ISPs harvesting data that the Trump administration struck down. So this is maybe not so much a bold step forwards against data harvesting as a refusal to be dragged backwards.

[treis]

>Gotta start somewhere,

Why start with the only sector that isn't routinely harvesting and selling user data?

[iamnothere]

> Why start with the only sector that isn't routinely harvesting and selling user data?

If they aren't doing anything wrong with the data, then what's the issue? They won't have to change any business practices.

[egypturnash]

Maybe to create legal precedent to go after the sectors that do?