Comment Re:Just PR and damage control (Score 1) 34
Yeah and also, are we going to have to find out and get outraged at each and every bit of privacy invasion piecemeal to fight them one at a time?
If it sounds like we desperately need some broad rules and regulations of the data industry, and some heavy-handed justice for those who break the rules, it's because we do. And we've been needing them for at least two decades.
But here's the thing: our elected officials work for whomever has the deepest pockets, and it's not we-the-people: it's the very sumbitch mega-corporations that need regulating. So one thing you can be pretty sure is it's never going to happen.
I'm guessing damage control and PR decisions is as good as you're gonna get from people buy and sell data who get found out abusing the data.