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Thread · 3 tweets · 21 Jul 2018

Robin Berjon @robinberjon ·

Replying to @mmatthiesen and @gchampeau, @jason_kint, @jayrosen_nyu, @BrusselsGeek, @johnnyryan, @SophieintVeld, @IABEurope, @ddalton40, @ErnstCornelia, @MichalBoni, @Fontana3Lorenzo, @JanAlbrecht, @EU_EDPS, @why0hy, @BirgitSippelMEP

Ah, I was just wondering when the "but the market should solve this" argument was going to show up! Financial services are heavily regulated because they are so complex that the knowledge asymmetry is heavily detrimental to users. 1/n
Robin Berjon @robinberjon ·
Adtech and what is generally done to personal data is exactly the same. Consent to that is a travesty, regulation is needed. Like smoking, the injury from privacy loss is separated in time from its cause. Humans suck at that, regulation is needed. (2/n)
Robin Berjon @robinberjon ·
(Sorry, interrupted by the French countryside.) Like pollution, individual preference, industrial choice, and eventual harm areas misaligned. Again, not one for the market. (3/3)