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How about we regulate AND make it easy for startups to compete. Living in world where the big corps can all responsibly handle your data (what ever that actuall
by sitkack 5y ago
How about we regulate AND make it easy for startups to compete. Living in world where the big corps can all responsibly handle your data (what ever that actually means) and competition stagnates. Our brand of capitalism pretends in runs on competition.
*edit and from the article, if Amazon is quietly curtailing and preventing privacy laws on a state basis, what effort are they using ton unify those laws on a federal basis?
> No major federal privacy legislation has passed Congress in years because members have been deadlocked on the issue.
I assume Amazon is assisting here as well.
All large corporations have a lot of folks at the edges actually doing the work. The internal controls for privacy are strong, but those are nearly orthogonal to the larger corporate goals. If you leak or improperly use customer data, that could have huge ramifications from the political and legal fall out. The amoral or immoral use of customer data at the whole org level are what people are generally talking about when it comes to data privacy from corporations.
- 1cvmask 5y agoThe laws are written to entrench incumbents and their moats. Startups have neither the resources or the lobbyists to compete while they try to get their bare feeble MVP off the ground. The only way you can do that is if you carve out exemptions for smaller companies. This law does not apply if you have less than 300 employees and 100 million is net turnover etc.
- mistrial9 5y agothis cynical post misses the fact that corporate executives also decry invasions of privacy when it hits they themselves, their dear ones and their inner circles. You can bet that there is privacy available, but how, from whom, under what terms, and of course how much money does it cost.
- sitkack 5y agoHow about we make privacy laws that are easy for everyone to comply with. No moats, no exemptions. We need strong personal privacy and the peeping tom corporations can offer value other than attempting to hack our wetware for profit.