[pessimizer]

> The point of privacy legislation is not to increase competition. The point is to increase privacy.

There is no point without a person to have one. This is your point. It's absolutely impossible to generalize it to everyone who works to pass "privacy" legislation, and simply incorrect. Sometimes you try to pass privacy legislation to reduce privacy. Sometimes you try to pass privacy legislation because you have a product that would sell more if it passed. And yes, sometimes you try to pass privacy legislation because it adds so much red tape that you need a full time employee, a team, or a department to comply with it, and you know potential challengers can't afford that yet.