Sent a note to my congressman too. Was a first time for me in doing so on any subject.
I tried to lighten the EFF verbiage a bit to focus on what I think is the real punchline for me --- Any law mandating the personal data on the activities of its citizens be amassed and centralized, is a problem. Even if this law is only partially achieving this point and it has the best of intentions it seems very plausible or even likely that the data would be misused with possibly devastating consequence. Additionally like so many laws before it, it's likely that incrementally restrictive laws be built atop of it in socially difficult to (but not impossible to) digest pieces until the system is unacceptable all together.
Yes personal information is amassed about people who use certain products, like Facebook (by Facebook), but that pool of consumers has a choice in the use of that service and accepting it's terms. If they don't like the terms, they can create a new great service - in turn, fostering the competitive spirit and trending towards more acceptable terms and better choices for all.
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Sent a note to my congressman too. Was a first time for me in doing so on any subject.
I tried to lighten the EFF verbiage a bit to focus on what I think is the real punchline for me --- Any law mandating the personal data on the activities of its citizens be amassed and centralized, is a problem. Even if this law is only partially achieving this point and it has the best of intentions it seems very plausible or even likely that the data would be misused with possibly devastating consequence. Additionally like so many laws before it, it's likely that incrementally restrictive laws be built atop of it in socially difficult to (but not impossible to) digest pieces until the system is unacceptable all together.
Yes personal information is amassed about people who use certain products, like Facebook (by Facebook), but that pool of consumers has a choice in the use of that service and accepting it's terms. If they don't like the terms, they can create a new great service - in turn, fostering the competitive spirit and trending towards more acceptable terms and better choices for all.