[jwestbury]

Or just give the government reasonable power to enforce things. GDPR, as an example, has been very effective, because the fines which can be levied for violations are genuinely impactful to businesses. The maximum fine is 4% of global annual revenue. Alphabet, for instance, could theoretically be liable for up to $11b, or around 20% of their net income. Amazon could be liable for up to $20b -- almost double their operating income (their 2022 net income was negative to begin with).

As a result, GDPR is pretty well followed. As an American living in Europe, I have to use a VPN to access many of my American financial institutions, because they don't think the GDPR risk is worth it and have chosen to simply block access from Europe.

[peyton]

GDPR is about giving control to people by disallowing data controllers from just passing the buck to 3rd party data processors.

But you can already just not work for Elon if you think he’s an asshole.

What’s the compelling state interest here?

[saagarjha]

If Elon can legally violate your rights because they’re not enshrined in labor law or not enforced, so can everyone else.

[mrpopo]

No, you don't have a choice, if you want to work on building rockets that actually ship (thanks to constant government backing and de facto monopoly, confirmed in recent years after the failure of Blue Origin and others to dethrone them).

The compelling state interest is to keep working with ethical companies.

[pintxo]

You could also not use google or amazon /s

In cases where mostly everyone is doing it, the only thing to choose for you is who’s going to abuse you/your data. But not the fact that it’s happening in the first place.