My point would be that there are a lot of illegal business practices. You as a costumer cannot buy expired food.
> it's telling the businesses and users how they can sell that data and what they can use it for, so it's not a choice by the user on what they do with their data, and more a collective decision with the government.
That is true, and that should happen in cases where market incentives do not align with social or public interests.
I see where your coming from, and it makes sense. Your point of view, if I understand correctly, is that the government should protect consumers from accidentally making bad choices. And I get that. It seems like it would be nice. But I don't think that's a road we want to go down, because if the government gets to make choices for people in one area, why not others? And why are we assuming that the government always knows better than the people that are actually in situations?
I mean, if I'm being honest my views on government aren't very common, so it'll probably be expedient to agree to disagree. (:
> it's telling the businesses and users how they can sell that data and what they can use it for, so it's not a choice by the user on what they do with their data, and more a collective decision with the government.
That is true, and that should happen in cases where market incentives do not align with social or public interests.