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No. The answer isn't just individual action. Despite what the lolbertarians say, technology can and should be regulated. This is definitely one of those spaces

No. The answer isn't just individual action. Despite what the lolbertarians say, technology can and should be regulated. This is definitely one of those spaces that need more regulations like GDPR and CCPA. We've run this libertarian nonsense to its logical conclusion, and your solution is to get browbeaten and blackmailed into aggregating your PII into one database without any rules and with the hope that you'll have "agency"? I'm sure such a company would be very responsive to your unregulated requests for PII deletion. Let's not be naive here, this is exactly the kind of space where you need government regulation to start making it harder to do these kinds of activity.

dleeftink 3y ago
As stated elsewhere [1], I do think that governments have a (large) role to play. But we also shouldn't be naive and look at current (EU/US) regulations and pray the fines will deter data brokering from continuing unheeded. As with any 'tech genie', once out its bottle existing political instruments may need adjusting to this new reality. We have been living in the big data era for over 15 years now, and I have yet to reap any of the profits surely made by the many stakeholders benefitting from my online presence. We have tax breaks and incentives; why no equivalent for our digital contributions, which governments and financial institutions equally make use of and benefit from? [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38997955 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38997955