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What?

• hayst4ck 2y ago
  Who should stop a company from doing things that are unethical, in this case selling genetic data to companies to use for their own ends, rather than to use data to benefit customers. The attorney general for a state as well as the legislative body passing laws that help the AG do their job has a responsibility to prevent this. So this person in a position of power, who should be stopping a blatant abuse of people's data, has abandoned that responsibility and instead told every individual, in a public statement that would be very easy to miss, to prevent the abuse of data themselves. This style of handling data is a policy like recycling, or telling people to turn off their lights to protect the planet. It distributes responsibility to individuals, for a problem that can only be meaningfully addressed through regulation.
  • derektank 2y ago
    You said it yourself, the AG can only enforce laws that the legislature and governor pass. Calling the AG's statement a corporate attack seems needlessly inflammatory when he doesn't have the authority to change the law himself.
    • hayst4ck 2y ago
      AG exists as part of a system. An AG should be working with a legislative body to give the AG the tools the AG office needs to do their job. This is abandonment of responsibility because challenging corporate power results in reduced corporate backing. This is corporate <-> political alignment against citizens manifested.
      • Dylan16807 2y ago
        General consumer protection is not the AG's job. You're demanding action out of the wrong person.
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