Opening paragraphs: There are two major reasons that the U.S. doesn’t pass an internet-era privacy law or regulate data brokers despite a parade of danger

Opening paragraphs: There are two major reasons that the U.S. doesn’t pass an internet-era privacy law or regulate data brokers despite a parade of dangerous scandals. One, lobbied by a vast web of interconnected industries with unlimited budgets, Congress is too corrupt to do its job. Two, the U.S. government is disincentivized to do anything because it exploits this privacy dysfunction to buy data, dodge warrants, and expand surveillance. Stores about the massive and growing scope of corp & gov surveillance have been published for a very long time. Charitably, I'd guess there's a psychological barrier that keeps journalists and editors from reaching this point - or at least reaching it with the impression that the public should be aware. Logically, news coverage should progress pointing out these inescapable conclusions, yet it ~never does.