> You'll see my suggestions purposely skirt the question of consent. Access, erasure and objection. You can access your information held by others. You can requ

> You'll see my suggestions purposely skirt the question of consent. Access, erasure and objection. You can access your information held by others. You can require its deletion. And you can object to how it's used. Sure. I just see the legislative meat grinder turning "information" into narrowly construed red herrings like SSN's and account numbers, "access" into the ability to file individual written requests (which include more personal information) to specific entities you happen to know about, "deletion" into the null operation because it "infringes freedom", and "objection" into a strongly worded protest rather than anything actionable. I certainly do want to be wrong here, but this is the same country where widely-lauded healthcare reform ended up including a provision that everyone had to pay the parasites. Good point about the perils of making one's interest in personal information more property like. I had wanted to head that off by making it non-transferable, but you're right to point out the slippery slope that legislative corruption would surely push us down. As far as copyright, it grows ever stronger in spite of patently obvious free speech concerns (eg DMCA "anti-circumvention"), because legislation that benefits corporations wins out over legislation that benefits individual rights. And for "lazy legislating", what I see really not paying off is when congress addresses an issue a single time and then considers the matter solved, regardless of the actual result.