2. This won’t “reign in” the big firms it’ll shield them from competition.
3. At a time when China is totally protecting their tech firms from outside competition and providing them with stolen IP and the EU is using every tool in their disposal to go after US tech companies the last thing our lawmaker should do is try and stab our tech firms in the back.
2. Competition for your otherwise private or your public data sets?
3. Right, because China has bad habits therefore all your data should for sale.
I'm kind of leaning the other way, really. I'll take the privacy laws and let tech adapt or die. The only part that I actually need is the pipe anyway (sort of the antithesis to big content AND data brokers, I guess, but there you go).
This kind of legislation is not pertinent to the average citizen and this whole debate is being conducted in an environment of hysteria around the cambridge analytica episode which is being fueled by political opportunism.
It would seem like you have skin in the game of free-wheeling and dealing with folks and their data. That or just some passion without premise. What's good for the nation is (re)adapting to privacy - likewise its peoples and doubly so for the state. I also don't see your directive influencing those people's actions either, so it appears some other people disagree, too.