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Global Poll Shows 71% Support Regulation of Tech Giants to Protect Data Privacy
- riazrizvi 7y agoThe exploitation of data is the foundation that stale companies and industries are using to increase their power, past their prime. Since there are new unprecedented amounts of data, there is now an unprecedented amount of control that big corporations have access to, and we are facing uncharted waters in terms of how much control those companies have. That is why there is no accountability for a fully corrupt President. As long as corporate America’s agenda is being served, it can subvert the will of the people through political influence manipulation that is both surgical and extensive. That is why widely supported gun control legislation is absent, that is why widely supported medical cost control legislation is absent. Without the political will to fight for data privacy, it is only going to get worse.
- rkagerer 7y agoIf somebody stalked me 24x7 with a notebook recording everywhere I went and everything I did, said, and looked at, couldn't I build a case for harassment? (I'm not a public figure). Is the only difference that these big tech companies do it where we can't see them and [sometimes] get our permission [to some extent] via an onerous and non-negotiable ToS?
- IXxXI 7y agoRegulation of tech giants does nothing to mitigate issues relating to data privacy as they fail to take into account major offenders like the chinese government who are far more dangerous in terms of privacy and data breaches.