Comment by apercu

> Restrict data collection? It would kill all startups and firmly entrance a terrible provider monopoly who can comply.

That's a terrible argument for allowing our data to be sprayed everywhere. How about regulations with teeth that prohibit "dragons" from hoarding data about us? I do not care what the impact is on the "economy". That ship sailed with the current government in the US.

Or, both more and less likely, cut us in on the revenue. That will at least help some of the time we have to waste doing a bunch of work every time some company "loses" our data.

I'm tired of subsidizing the wealth and capital class. Pay us for holding our data or make our data toxic.

Obviously my health provider and my bank need my data. But no one else does. And if my bank or health provider need to share my data with a third party it should be anonymized and tokenized.

None of this is hard, we simply lack will (and most consumers, like voters are pretty ignorant).