Why Privacy Regulations Don’t Always Do What They’re Meant To

Sweeping privacy regulations, in short, are likely coming to the United States. That should be welcome news, given the sad, arguably nonexistent state of our modern right to privacy. But there are serious dangers in any new move to regulate data. Such regulations could backfire — for example, by entrenching already dominant technology companies or by failing to help consumers actually control the data we generate (presumably the major goal of any new legislation).

Full article: Why Privacy Regulations Don’t Always Do What They’re Meant To