Comment by mark_l_watson

This is so stupid. I am a fan of the books Privacy is Power and The Tech Coup, both books do a great job arguing for privacy and mitigating the harm of tech giants.

What should be done is having strong privacy laws, requirements for encrypting user data, 100% transparency on how user data is sold (require all buyer and seller information to be public), prohibiting sale of user data in most cases, super fine control privacy and security settings.

Google already does a good job on some of these things, and they and other tech giants need to be fenced in by strong privacy and user rights laws.

Corporations are good at still making profits when they have to follow laws that are inconvenient to them.

If members of the US Congress were prohibited by law from stock trading, that might help clean up the logjams preventing better laws.