I disagree. Aside from the possiblity of collected data landing in the hands of government fairly easily, this isn't the only reason for privacy protection. I w

I disagree. Aside from the possiblity of collected data landing in the hands of government fairly easily, this isn't the only reason for privacy protection. I would also dispite that it got out of hand in some cases, although it is often just applied wrongly. It isn't as popular anymore since the normal user is just annoyed by the cookie popups and in his mind data protection instead of the site owner tracking people like there is no tomorrow.