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Can you provide any proof that "regulatory doesn't work"? Might be my European outlook, but consumer law has been stupidly effective at curbing abuses from companies here and was much more effective than playing the technology race USA is trying to fight. There's always a next side-step, the next abuse a company can invent - and you keep trying to push the responsibility of avoiding it to users (by adding more and mo…
You don't need proof you just need some sound reasoning about the trends. If it were as effective as you claim, progression in this area would have halted full stop. Ask yourself how long have those consumer laws been in effect. Has this technology problem progressed during that time (increased or decreased). Have the fines against the large tech companies actually been collected and were they sufficient to curb that…
- living in the UK, I barely ever receive spam calls or messages. I can be reasonably sure that companies don't sell my contacts to third parties, I can withdraw my consent to marketing communications and spam will stop, I did it multiple times. My American friends seem to have way more problems with that, to the extent of buying burner phones to buy insurance. Considering that the tech is exactly the same across the pond, the difference is entirely in the legislation and consumer protection.
- cars became much cleaner and more efficient over the last three decades thanks to the ever ratcheting Euro standards. I only need an old car passing by to be reminded of that, you can just smell the difference.
- my broadband connection has a minimum average speed guaranteed by law, which protects me from the line being oversubscribed. This actually works, and a friend of mine got a sizeable compensation for a period when they didn't get the full speed.
So consumer laws work, and saying that enforcement can't be done is a bit of a post-hoc rationalisation. It is true that GDPR can and should be enforced harsher, but it's just one example in a long and successful history of consumer protections.