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It's not against the law no, which is the point of discussion here I think. I believe it should be, which might help explain some of my opinions above. I don't
by ehnto 5y ago
It's not against the law no, which is the point of discussion here I think. I believe it should be, which might help explain some of my opinions above.
I don't think it's accurate to liken ubiquitous tracking of almost everyone across all their devices, to be the same as targeted advertising from the past. It's an entirely new behavior on an enormous, society size scale. It's having tangible negative externalities, remembering that advertising doesn't just include product placements. So you get those negative effects even without the privacy violation.
I'm not trying to compare this with privacy violations, I'm more trying to argue that for the issue being discussed in the antitrust, the technicality that it's not a privacy violation doesn't actually change much except that it's not illegal. The issue still exists.