> Make the collection itself illegal, give users control about their data Here is another idea that could give users control about their data, and that could b

> Make the collection itself illegal, give users control about their data Here is another idea that could give users control about their data, and that could be more easily accepted by governments and companies. All the data of user X living in country Y should be stored on a server handled by country Y. Moreover, add the following features: - User X should be able to see all the people and companies that have access to his or her data. - Country Y could put some tax on each request, that should cover at least the costs for maintening the servers. This would give users more control about their data, and this would give countries more compensation on the monetizable data coming from its land. The compensation would be a motivation for the governments to implement and maintain these servers. Moreover, as opposed to a full ban on data collection, this approach might be accepted by companies since they would still be able to work with users data: just now they would need to pay for them and also they would need to let users know exactly who they sell the data to. In particular, if they sell the data to agressive ads companies, this would be known by the users and this could decrease their reputation. From a technical point of view it seems doable and a service with similar features is already implemented in Estonia for example [1]. [1]: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12553-017-0195-1 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12553-017-0195-1