> if you look how regulations worked in the past for other industries, it has always been a response to very clear quantifiable harm being caused. It should be

> if you look how regulations worked in the past for other industries, it has always been a response to very clear quantifiable harm being caused. It should be straightforward to show quantifiable harm to people’s right to privacy. You could survey a large number of people to ask if they would be OK with having their online habits monitored in detail by unknown companies (whose websites they didn’t even visit) for the purpose of targeting ads to them at later dates. If close to 100% of respondents say this is an invasion of their privacy, then that’s what it is. You could also do some more technical research to work out how many times per week people’s privacy is invaded in this way. You’d probably arrive at a very big number, rising every year.