> 2. The harms of privacy violations are hard to quantify the same way as deaths or dollars. I'm not saying it's easy, but I am saying that no matter how you w

> 2. The harms of privacy violations are hard to quantify the same way as deaths or dollars. I'm not saying it's easy, but I am saying that no matter how you want to frame it, there's no chance it's even in the same ballpark, even with the psychosocial aspects that you rightly corrected me for ignoring. > 3. The comparison between Facebook and Phillip Morris to which you're responding was not framed in terms of deathcount or health harm. So your reading of the comparison along those lines was bound to be troubled. I think suggesting a similar policy treatment implies a certain equivalency of harm done. Whether the fine article explicitly makes that claim is beside the point, IMO.