What we need here isn't regulation -- the cell business at least in the U.S. has all kinds of regulation. What we need is the ability of the consumer to sue the

What we need here isn't regulation -- the cell business at least in the U.S. has all kinds of regulation. What we need is the ability of the consumer to sue these companies if any of their data gets released. Regulation puts all the risk in one bucket, the regulator. If the company can deal with the regulator, they're good to go. And we've seen how good government oversight of privacy is going to be. Open things up for civil suits, on the other hand, changes the economics drastically. Companies don't have to worry about making one agency happy. Instead, they have to worry about each and every customer. That's exactly the kind of care we expect from these bozos in the first place.