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When you move fast and break things, sometimes what ends up broken is you. That’s probably a lesson which needs to be painfully re-learned by some. As you said, too many have been outrunning real consequences for a while, but that’s not some inherent right, it’s a con.

If personal info is worth what a lot of companies seem to think it’s worth, then governments have been downright negligent in their lack of regulation. Playing fast and lose with people’s identities should never have been acceptable, and complaining that the first wave of consumer protections is anti-business mostly tells you what kinds of businesses we’re dealing with.




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