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Makes me wonder if we need the government to: - Require companies to register before collecting personally identifying information (what, why, from whom, etc).

Makes me wonder if we need the government to: - Require companies to register before collecting personally identifying information (what, why, from whom, etc). - Specify how & when privacy policies are distributed. - Audit companies to ensure they adhere to their own privacy policies.

yellow_postit 8y ago
I have long wanted to see a standardized data privacy table like food nutrition information on the side of most packaged food in the US.
- anon4738383 8y ago
  I'd like to see America regulate chemicals too as they are in Scandinavia, such as requiring evidence proving their safety, but legislation such as TSCA grandfathered in thousands of compounds with zero safety data. If you think you're going to get a crumb from the klepto-plutocrats' table, I think you're gonna need a straight-jacket and a padded room. People are still dumb enough that they willingly hand over their contact details for a "prize" car or something that no one ever wins in order for some company to sell their details to be nonstop marketed to. And post-Equifax, it's easier than ever to steal a person's identity by opening accounts in their name without them figuring out until collections come calling. When/if political winds shift far enough, then it might be possible for Americans to gain identity protections as stringent as Germany's. Until then, Americans will continue being screwed and lied to, and it's their fault for being too compliant and not demanding better leadership.
anon4738383 8y ago
Not with Ajit Pai and the rest of the cronies dynamiting government. This is just wishful thinking so long as billionaires run the politics in America. Changing that, which means tempering the timeless interests of the rich aristocracy to control everything for their exclusive benefit, is a precondition to any meaningful, major overhaul that doesn't benefit them. Otherwise, suggesting such would be waiting for Godot.

yellow_postit 8y ago

I have long wanted to see a standardized data privacy table like food nutrition information on the side of most packaged food in the US.

anon4738383 8y ago
I'd like to see America regulate chemicals too as they are in Scandinavia, such as requiring evidence proving their safety, but legislation such as TSCA grandfathered in thousands of compounds with zero safety data. If you think you're going to get a crumb from the klepto-plutocrats' table, I think you're gonna need a straight-jacket and a padded room. People are still dumb enough that they willingly hand over their contact details for a "prize" car or something that no one ever wins in order for some company to sell their details to be nonstop marketed to. And post-Equifax, it's easier than ever to steal a person's identity by opening accounts in their name without them figuring out until collections come calling. When/if political winds shift far enough, then it might be possible for Americans to gain identity protections as stringent as Germany's. Until then, Americans will continue being screwed and lied to, and it's their fault for being too compliant and not demanding better leadership.

anon4738383 8y ago

Not with Ajit Pai and the rest of the cronies dynamiting government. This is just wishful thinking so long as billionaires run the politics in America. Changing that, which means tempering the timeless interests of the rich aristocracy to control everything for their exclusive benefit, is a precondition to any meaningful, major overhaul that doesn't benefit them. Otherwise, suggesting such would be waiting for Godot.