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>There is a real need to legislate against this on an overall level. I could not disagree more strongly. Legislation is simply the people already in position p
by indigochill 7y ago
>There is a real need to legislate against this on an overall level.
I could not disagree more strongly. Legislation is simply the people already in position pulling the ladder up behind them. The people with money and lawyers will insert and then exploit loopholes.
Instead, disrupt it at its source. Flood the data collectors with adversarial noise, learn to remove your personal information from the web, and so on. Personal privacy is becoming a duty not just to ourselves but to our democracy.
- Havoc 7y ago>Instead, disrupt it at its source. As grand as that sounds it's not viable. People aren't even coping with tech basics let alone large scale evasion of the sophisticated tracking being deployed. Sure you can maybe get the top 10% most tech savy to do something like removing their personal info, but that's not enough to move the needle. Legislation might though. See GDPR forcing companies to stop logging IPs. That's way more tangible. Of course there will be loopholes - legislation is imperfect - but we need something that has any kind of effect asap.