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I completely disagree -- the law moves slow, we don't want to jump the gun and get bad laws. If in the meantime some people are inconvenienced or worse someone

• Silhouette 17y ago
  I agree that bad laws are worse than no laws, but how long exactly does it take? It's really not that hard to think through the consequences of modern technology providing massive data storage, fast data mining, and a worldwide communications network with near instant data transmission and plenty of bandwidth. It's also not as if these are new developments or things we could not see coming. I can completely accept not rushing out a law in five minutes, but this has been coming for at least a decade, and it's been a huge and blindingly obvious issue for several years, ever since the social networking sites and data hoarders like Google got big. There have been plenty of serious data loss cases, including those with very serious consequences. There have been plenty of cases where databases have come incorrect, deliberately or carelessly, and those have serious consequences too. Failing to update privacy and data protection laws by now isn't caution, it's negligence.