> People complain all the time about how Google and Facebook and Netflix and Spotify own all my data and make it impossible to use it outside their platform, yet I never hear people discussing the most obvious solution: just regulate them to make the data interoperable and empower you like you wish all the decentralized technology would enable you to do, if only they had adoption!
That doesn't address the issue where your personal information is their business, ie. the ad-supported business as discussed in the article. The limits of what's allowable probably needs to be well-understood by all parties.