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Certainly you can ban the sale, but it’s hard to imagine a law that outright bans the collection—there will be exceptions for law enforcement, and it’s not inco
by junofan 4y ago
Certainly you can ban the sale, but it’s hard to imagine a law that outright bans the collection—there will be exceptions for law enforcement, and it’s not inconceivable those exceptions will be abused. I think technological and social solutions may be a better bet than laws on the books in this case.
- Nextgrid 4y agoIf you ban non-consensual data collection & processing then there wouldn’t be a business case for building infrastructure for it. Law enforcement would have to build it from scratch (and trick users to fall for it or pass laws to force people/companies to use it) where as right now they can just dip into the data companies already collect. The "attention economy" is the best thing that happened to intelligence agencies worldwide. Where as before they had to build surveillance infrastructure themselves (which requires budget, skills and secrecy, all of which is costly and politically risky), nowadays they get all of that not just for free but much better than anything they could build themselves.