US lawmakers unveil a plan to give all Americans a right to online privacy
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> The proposed agreement would create an unprecedented, single federal standard governing digital privacy in the United States and reflects a significant breakthrough after years of stalled negotiations between Republicans and Democrats. But it could also override some of the toughest state-based privacy laws in the nation, such as in California ... It would pre-empt more than a dozen state privacy laws already on the books in states such as California, Texas and Virginia.
Let's just wait and watch before celebrating.
We in India went through something similar hoping our central government would bring strong data protection and privacy laws but what we got was a law neutered by the "data is the new oil" indian corporate. The government also abused the process to carve out many exemptions for itself on how it could access and use the same data.
- Digital Personal Data Protection Law Raises Questions About Consistency With Right to Privacy Ruling - https://thewire.in/rights/digital-personal-data-protection-l...
- How India’s Data Protection Law Weakens Citizens’ Right to Information - https://thediplomat.com/2023/08/how-indias-data-protection-l...
> regulating how companies can collect
Better luck next time.
Not all advertising, just *personalized* advertising.
Visit automobile dealership web sites and you'll have auto ads following you all over the internet for months --- long after you're already bought a car.
Who benefits from this?
Advertisers because customers are more likely to buy things.
Customers because they see things that are more relevant..
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In my experience, what people don't like is ads. Full stop.
They think they don't like personalized ads, but what they actually don't like is ads.
Nobody benefits from showing me car ads *after* I have already bought a car.
...what they actually don't like is ads.
No, it's *personalized* ads --- ads that are totally divorced from any logical or reasonable context.
It's stupid to assume that I'm still interested in buying a product from last week when I'm viewing a totally unrelated web site. Personalized ads are just plain dumb most of the time.
Fair enough.
But what about after shopping for a car?
There is a name for this, it is called "context sensitive" ads --- not nearly as dumb or annoying as "personalized".
You know, one that encourages me to spend quality time with my family, or one that brings to my attention techniques I can use to achieve inner peace.
Instead, all I get are uniformly unnecessary and unpleasant entreaties to purchase things which I don’t want or need, which I already know about, or which I could find out about with minimal effort.