We need a sort of Geneva Conventions for privacy and unwanted intrusions on attention. Creating something like a wide-scale database about individuals based on

We need a sort of Geneva Conventions for privacy and unwanted intrusions on attention. Creating something like a wide-scale database about individuals based on data collected without their consent or under duress could be treated, internationally, like the deployment of nuclear weapons in a first strike. Likewise, we could charge people who deploy pop-up ads with crimes on the magnitude of a mugging. Botnet operators could be hunted with the zeal we currently reserve for drug smugglers and media pirates.