I was trying to get this across to a few people in various forums. The mere fact that data is gathered in places allows and ultimately engenders its exploitati

I was trying to get this across to a few people in various forums. The mere fact that data is gathered in places allows and ultimately engenders its exploitation. You can't fix the laws. You have to fix the humans somehow. Or write systems that, by construction (as in, a lot of research into dependent type systems where a "bad" program cannot be compiled) do not allow data to be abused.