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Weaponizing customer data like that would literally be illegal in the EU, so doesn't seem like the best plan... Other ideas might work!

• martin_bech 8y ago
  Moviepass is not available in the EU.
  • Robin_Message 8y ago
    Oh okay, that's alright then /s
  • jsgo 8y ago
    true, but I think their point is that if the policy catches on there as popular, what is to prevent the US (or others) from implementing similar laws? Relying on a business model that could reasonably be illegal after the stroke of a pen by a legislator is not a good thing. And legislators are at least putting on the appearance of being concerned about user data after the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica thing would cause one to exercise even more caution.
    • stuckinarut 8y ago
      Regulatory capture, bribes (AKA lobbying), a culture that devalues privacy, a culture that places corporate rights over individual rights, a culture that doesn't like sane limitations on contracts, etc... So long as Google is an 800B behemoth who invests more than anyone else in lobbying, monetizing customer data (and sucking up massively more data than needed) is going to be legal.