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Even if this is so, could you think of a better alternative for some modicum of consumer protection?
by hnarayanan 9y ago
Even if this is so, could you think of a better alternative for some modicum of consumer protection?
- adventured 9y agoSure, but it'll never happen. North America, the EU+Eurozone, Australia/New Zealand, Japan, and as much of Latin America & Africa as possible, should come up with a common framework that gets you an extremely high degree of compliance out of the gate if you follow it (with some expected smaller issues that are likely to be unavoidable on a nation to nation basis). WTO for the Internet. It's probably an inevitable outcome in some manner. The difficulty (cost, compliance and just plain frustration) will get great enough such that this will happen. The primary question is what form it'll take, what authority body/bodies it falls under, who initiates it, who the stragglers are, and so on. China would never sign on to it, and several dozen other nations also would likely lag or refuse. In China's case, they've always operated their own Internet, so they're irrelevant to the context that's occurring.
- Normal_gaussian 9y agoThe nations set the consumer laws and the companies follow it; the most restrictive case is no unauthorised tracking, no unauthorised analytics, local warehousing. If your system can cope with the most restrictive case, you can tag the data with the jurisdictions (easy), and then enable tracking / analytics / shared warehouses for more complex data. It sounds like a reasonable startup idea to help manage this.