Maybe defaults should not be designed to capture personal information. This indicates a massive need for GDPR or something like it, as opposed to the opposite.

Maybe defaults should not be designed to capture personal information. This indicates a massive need for GDPR or something like it, as opposed to the opposite. The lack of disincentives to collect personal information is why so many softwares default to collecting it. GDPR flips the equation completely, where GDPR aware software (and lots of software now market their GDPR compatibility) will default to not collecting personal information.