For all the faults that lobbying brings with it, there is something to be said for actually bringing in outside experts into the legislative process. You can se

For all the faults that lobbying brings with it, there is something to be said for actually bringing in outside experts into the legislative process. You can seek intellectual purity all you want, but at the end of the day you are going to have to have some trust that farmers know where seeds go and tech companies know how encryption works. Similar bills have died several times in the US, if only because there were actual experts available (aka, lobbyists) who could tell them why this idea was dumb and impossible. It's hard not to see this following in the line of "right to be forgotten" or "tracking consent" where legitimate concerns about the language of the rules were completely dismissed as industry noise.