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>>the states regulatory authority of digital things, like the computer in your car Umm, I most definitely agree with you to the extent the state can regulate automobiles, as in the present example for emissions, the state can regulate the computers that control those emissions. This is a question of a dragnet of all data from a seller of generic modification capability with reportedly far broader application than merely coal-rolling. If the app was just "One-Click-Coal-Roller!", I'd agree — they should have access to every user name, address, etc., at least for their state. Plus, even for a broader-use app, if the state had even a bit more specificity, even going after say, only users who connected the app to vehicles where this is the most common illegal modification (or if they have records of modified data, then data on changing emissions settings for pickup trucks), I'd allow it. But wholesale data dragnets are just out of bounds in any reasonable democracy. |