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>Legislation about our rights to digital privacy and related issues are... This! A thousand times this! What good does it do to break these companies up if t
by bilbo0s 8y ago
>Legislation about our rights to digital privacy and related issues are...
This!
A thousand times this!
What good does it do to break these companies up if they can all share my data with each other freely in any case?
And if we make the sharing of data EXPLICITLY illegal with harsh repercussions, a la HIPAA, then I don't really need for them to be broken up.
It's just sound bite politics that will land we the people in the same place we started. Probably a worse place, because we will have split up what was a 9mm data privacy bullet into what would effectively be a shotgun blast.
- ahartmetz 8y agoThe Apple phantom monopoly came up several times already on HN. Here is my best guess of a cause, seen from over here in Europe: I get the impression that in the US, ~everybody who can afford it chooses iPhones, so rich educated liberal types on some emotional level don't realize that "iPhone" is just one product in the smartphone market, which is plenty diverse enough.