How about their credit card processor? And, then if the credit card processor incentivizes merchants to share the names of products sold rather than just the to

How about their credit card processor? And, then if the credit card processor incentivizes merchants to share the names of products sold rather than just the total charged? Especially if they give you a point of sale system, and it automatically generates reports for tracking sales tax or ties into accounting software for small businesses, it’s difficult to imagine them not joining such a program and choosing to do paperwork manually instead. The author says he gets about $400/month from ads, but would stop if the cost/effort to comply was more than that. It sounds like the service didn’t just outsource the process of finding advertisers who want to display an ad, it also outsources the collection of data about visitors and selling it to data brokers. Whether the law is bad has a lot to do with whether it is beneficial or not to have every blog and every local pizza shop involved in selling customer data. The services that are paying $400/month for negligible additional effort are not going to be unaware of legislation, and will adapt their practices to comply with whatever privacy standards are chosen by the society where they operate. If $300 of that income comes from data brokers rather than advertisers then that part of the income simply wouldn’t be legal without extra work, and it is the prerogative of societies to make such decisions about the property rights of data.