> [personal data is] not, and should not be [a commodity] I'm dubious that banning the sale of personal information is going to have a huge impact. Google and

> [personal data is] not, and should not be [a commodity] I'm dubious that banning the sale of personal information is going to have a huge impact. Google and Facebook already violate laws as they please with the knowledge that they'll have to pay the fine. They seem to be ok with that arrangement. From a technical perspective, I don't think it's even possible to prevent the collection and use of personal data. I like the idea behind Tim Berners-Lee's Solid[0], but it suffers from the same flaw as video game copy protection and movie DRM. At some point, you have to decrypt the data and let a webapp have access to it. The only way to avoid that would be to go all the way back to using native apps for everything and ditch the web altogether. [0]: https://solid.inrupt.com/how-it-works https://solid.inrupt.com/how-it-works