[carapace]

This. Just as every obscenity filter has to have a list of obscenities to work, these creepy bastards will track you to not-track you.

We need laws. (Or just let everybody know everything: "Privacy is dead".)

[TomMarius]

How will laws help against the same thing, but made by unlawful people? I think it's better to accept that privacy in the classic sense is dead and adjust.

[xtian]

Perhaps we could have a group of people whose job it is to investigate and prosecute unlawful behavior.

[TomMarius]

Luckily we already have such group - but they need tools like this to be efficient against the unlawful people wielding that technology. What now?

[samoa42]

they dont need to be efficient, but effective. likewise the enforcers of law must not act unlawful.

[TomMarius]

In my native language, it's the same word. I meant it as both.

[samoa42]

i highly doubt it's the same word because it's not the same thing. consulting a thesaurus might help your understanding of the world.

[xtian]

No they don't.

[carapace]

I think then the issue becomes what you might call differential privacy. Do the rich and powerful get to opt out? That kind of thing.