> I would love more transparency here, but we're not getting that without government intervention, and that's unlikely to come anytime soon (and what gets passe

> I would love more transparency here, but we're not getting that without government intervention, and that's unlikely to come anytime soon (and what gets passed may be worse than the current situation). The GDPR (General Data Privacy Regulation -- an EU regulation that came into force last year) provides for this and has potentially very large fines to back up the regulation. Obviously it only applies to EU residents (or businesses) but I've heard that California is getting their own version of GDPR -- though I haven't looked into it. Facebook implemented the "delete your account" option that actually works in response to this, as well as giving explicit and opt-in consent to whatever tracking they use.