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They're not stealing personal data: users are willingly giving them this data. There is a solution to this, and that's to have stronger privacy laws like the E
by magduf 8y ago
They're not stealing personal data: users are willingly giving them this data.
There is a solution to this, and that's to have stronger privacy laws like the EU does, but American voters have flatly rejected anything like that and don't want such laws.
- kevin_thibedeau 8y agoAmerican politicians won't enact laws that impair the data broker industry which has been around for decades. Voters are kept largely in the dark by a press that doesn't want to expose how the sausage is made since they have a seat at the table.
- magduf 8y agoI don't buy this stuff about "the press" at all. The press in America was firmly behind Hillary in the 2016 election, and look what happened. The voters do have a will of their own and they're not just doing what the press tells them. (This isn't to say the voters made the right choice: the way the voters have voted is why we don't have strong data-protection laws, along with a lot of other things the Europeans have such as a better-functioning healthcare system, better public transit, etc.)