The issue is existential for websites, since it concerns their ability to remain profitable. As such, the website that stays in business longest is the one that

The issue is existential for websites, since it concerns their ability to remain profitable. As such, the website that stays in business longest is the one that can coax the most people to hand over their data. It is entirely inevitable that websites would go up to and beyond the letter of the law in pursuing this. Exactly right. It reminds me of the Wells Fargo scandal where branch managers were given unattainable quotas and resorted to fraud to meet them. Incentives matter.