Yeah its getting tiring watching the increasingly convoluted mental gymnastics to make companies and individuals responsible for completely failed lawmaking and rabid dog enforcement agencies.
Literally in the article:
“Be smart: Congress won't save us, or these companies, from this battle.
…
But long efforts by legislators to pass a national privacy law — an effort many companies support — remain stalemated this summer, as they have been for years.”
No, your fucking government is unable or unwilling to act in the interests of its people. What is a government that is unaccountable to its citizens (whether due to gridlock or malice) called?
National privacy laws would apply to all companies, present and future and to all cases of overreach. Instead, we are all supposed to fight the current big tech cos and fiddle with Google settings to delete location data and buy pinephones and gmail alternatives and drop facebook and use Signal and don’t buy a smart TV and don’t use Github and on and on? Maybe we need to invest more energy into fixing a dead government instead of tech.
Literally in the article:
“Be smart: Congress won't save us, or these companies, from this battle.
…
But long efforts by legislators to pass a national privacy law — an effort many companies support — remain stalemated this summer, as they have been for years.”
No, your fucking government is unable or unwilling to act in the interests of its people. What is a government that is unaccountable to its citizens (whether due to gridlock or malice) called?
National privacy laws would apply to all companies, present and future and to all cases of overreach. Instead, we are all supposed to fight the current big tech cos and fiddle with Google settings to delete location data and buy pinephones and gmail alternatives and drop facebook and use Signal and don’t buy a smart TV and don’t use Github and on and on? Maybe we need to invest more energy into fixing a dead government instead of tech.