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> This is why governments must intervene with laws such as GDPR or even much stronger ones in the future to protect people's privacy, because the companies them
by ubi_now 8y ago
> This is why governments must intervene with laws such as GDPR or even much stronger ones in the future to protect people's privacy, because the companies themselves have no incentive to "self-regulate" other than a negligible amount.
Market failure does not imply government solution. You're going to need a much stronger argument than "companies aren't doing a good enough job."
Amazon invaded her privacy, she realized it, and now she doesn't use the product. If you want others to do the same, start raising awareness yourself instead of enacting nanny state laws with other people's money.
- Proziam 8y agoI fail to see how market failures are not a reasonable point to look at whether governmental solutions are applicable. Case and point - 2008 Market Crash, everyone agrees the dishonest practices that led to the crash should have been made absolutely illegal (in the cases where they already weren't) In this case, we have MANY significant and potentially extraordinarily damaging failures in the markets to effectively protect people's privacy occurring fairly regularly. GDPR is not the ideal solution my any metric, but that's a failure of government to create effective legislation - not a lack of need for effective rules.