Data protection regulation addresses the abuses of reading information from databases. An analog to address the abuses of controlling how users read informatio

Data protection regulation addresses the abuses of reading information from databases. An analog to address the abuses of controlling how users read information from databases would be anti-trust regulation that unbundles client software from hosted services. "The algorithm" should be under control of the client software, for which there should be a competitive market, based on well-documented APIs for communication between the two. Then everyone can choose what "algorithm" they want, rather than having one singular one pushed on them by the service provider abusing its captive audience.