> Like you I would welcome some state intervention here, but I have to recognize that this is me lessening my commitment to the values of individualism. Is it

> Like you I would welcome some state intervention here, but I have to recognize that this is me lessening my commitment to the values of individualism. Is it though? Do you consider state intervention to eliminate slavery/indentured servitude to be a similar reduction in commitment? The question, when trying to maximize individual freedom, is what exactly you're maximizing. You can take approaches that maximize the freedom of those already most free (those with wealth and privilege), or you can try to increase the average (mean) freedom, or the median freedom, or increase the freedom of those who are least free by establishing a floor. Most of the approaches other than the first involve curtailing the freedoms of the most free in some way. Wanting to increase the median individual freedom by limiting the ability of individuals to enter into agreements with corporations that trade away their privacy in this way doesn't necessarily signal a lessening of commitment to individualism.