[anon25783]

A website run by a large corporation is very different from a store run by Jane. Jane does not have thousands or millions of people coming into her store, and she also is not selling CCTV footage from her store to advertising companies. We would be rightly outraged if she was. She also probably isn't sharing customer details or security footage with government authorities unless her store has been robbed or something.

[aaomidi]

This is a thing that these comparisons always miss.

These rules aren’t for your dream small business. It’s for a mega corp that would literally not care if you lived or died or if that hammer hit you on the head.

[jasonjayr]

Probably?

* Using Quickbooks Online? they market/sell that data.

* using ADT for payroll? They market/sell employee salary information.

* Using Ring for security? they freely share video with LEO

* etc, etc. All these services that SMB's use already have their fingers in the pie.

[midasuni]

Those big multinationals are abusing their position I agree. I’d like to see those practices banned, HN wouldn’t because half of HN relies of predatory activities to pay their rent