A lot of companies don’t give you a lot of choices. Want a credit card? We need to verify your identity. Oops, we sold that data to 3rd parties. And they sold i

A lot of companies don’t give you a lot of choices. Want a credit card? We need to verify your identity. Oops, we sold that data to 3rd parties. And they sold it to spammers. If you store my personal data and then have a data breach due to gross negligence, who suffers? I do. Can I sue? Probably not. I don’t want people passing around my data at all. It’s mine. And passing it around is creepy. “Just never fill in my data in a web form” is a grossly insufficient answer - I’d need to opt out of the entire modern economy. There’s an easy way for companies to comply with these requests: just don’t store people’s data in the first place. If you need to store my data, I want your site to be secure. And I want consent. And I want to be able to opt out. > drain on the productive members of society Most of these rules target ad companies, and I contest the “productive” part. They can all jump in a lake.