> Privacy regulations -- most regulations -- cement incumbents.
I’m not sure about this. This seems likely in industries where the user-facing product/service is necessarily tied to the business model (e.g. manufacturing cars, nuclear power plants, dentistry, etc.).
But that’s not the case with the Internet giants. Surveillance capitalism is the business model that Facebook and Google have chosen, but that doesn’t mean that we can’t have a social network or a search engine sustained though a different one.
It’s the business model, not the service (or the technology), which violates peoples’ privacy.
And it’s one that, upon reflection after reading the article, the EFF seem to be a supporter of.
I’m not sure about this. This seems likely in industries where the user-facing product/service is necessarily tied to the business model (e.g. manufacturing cars, nuclear power plants, dentistry, etc.).
But that’s not the case with the Internet giants. Surveillance capitalism is the business model that Facebook and Google have chosen, but that doesn’t mean that we can’t have a social network or a search engine sustained though a different one.
It’s the business model, not the service (or the technology), which violates peoples’ privacy.
And it’s one that, upon reflection after reading the article, the EFF seem to be a supporter of.