Exactly. I essentially think we need an amendment to the constitution that protects an individual’s right to not be solicited. What law would stop Google and F

Exactly. I essentially think we need an amendment to the constitution that protects an individual’s right to not be solicited. What law would stop Google and Facebook in their tracks is more the question we need to answer. Data collection is a means to an end for advertisers and not in and of itself bad (nor are applications and/protocols that use PII or globally unique IDs, etc.), which is why GDPR hasn‘t really moved the needle much. It’s fighting the symptom not the cause. Invasion of privacy and “spooky” knowledge about individuals is all downstream. And if I want to be solicited and psychologically manipulated into consume consume consume, then I really want it to be as relevant and effective as possible, don’t I? Yet another reason why attacking the data collection is ultimately barking up the wrong tree. But solicitation definitely shouldn’t be legal without my consent and probably broadly illegal to do to children.