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But this is business as usual: after the incumbents secure their dragon hoard doing unethical things, they pull the ladder up behind them by supporting legislat

But this is business as usual: after the incumbents secure their dragon hoard doing unethical things, they pull the ladder up behind them by supporting legislation that makes anyone smaller than them need to think twice about doing the exact same thing they did (thus preventing competition). Unless the same rules get enforced on the big players, it's just a moat around the status quo. In Europe's defense, they have been fining the big players, but on the other hand at this rate the fines are starting to feel more like a kickback than actual punitive measures intended to change behavior.

zx8080 4y ago
The EU fines are just fly bites for them. It's now the game over state for personal and family privacy. All the sites and apps and even casio watches has telemetry always-enabled (via mobile apps). Even cars. No one in governments or agencies cares about privacy anymore. Call it whatever one wants: corruption or lobbying, the name does not matter. The possible solutions are impossible for the non-software engineers (pihole and dns set in the home wifi, personal openvpn gateway set on all 4/5G connected devices). Younger generations don't care. Older ones just don't understand. It's the dark age of privacy. Literally no hope. I wonder what the consequences would be in the next 5-10 years when the collected data would be analyzed by AI and sold to anyone for a more and more cheaper price. What should happen for the people to push the unprivacy back hard enough to stop or revert?