Brendan Eich Writes to the US Senate: We Need a GDPR for the United States
If legislation is really required, and I&#x27;m not convinced it is, can we start small? This stuff never gets rolled back and tech companies&#x27; use of personal data is the new terrorism.<p>Again I&#x27;ll take none, but if this ridiculous fervor that&#x27;s been built requires something,  how about not-tech-specific rules around data sharing transparency? Just require details on what&#x27;s shared and with whom for those seeking it (ideally companies publish it to prevent requiring individual request&#x2F;response scaling issues, but their choice). You&#x27;re gonna find most people don&#x27;t care anyways, so they shouldn&#x27;t be burdened with more hardline privacy requirements. Just increase the visibility for now.<p>And please please learn from EU mistakes and establish enforcement mechanisms. Don&#x27;t just make exorbitant ceilings and move on. Have a framework to punish violators, and again start with small legislation until it can be shown enforcement occurs and is working.<p>Having said all that, can we just start with pro-privacy PSAs, education, targeted advertisement awareness, punitive measures for breaches, and relaxation of legislation preventing me from scraping&#x2F;manipulating&#x2F;proxying these sites however I want? If we all have to hire lawyers and&#x2F;or compliance assistance, then the first step is too large. We can make our way towards delete-all-my-data-on-request laws later. Not sure what made this an emergency (actually I do know based on media and political driven fervor, but that will be best studied through the lens of history). But all these tech people, OP and commenters here especially, don&#x27;t speak for many people who accept the current state or reasonably understand heavy-handed government regulations on the internet bring more bad than good.<p>And for goodness sake, don&#x27;t use the domain of your should-be-neutral software to make a political post. You aren&#x27;t gonna feel any pain now because you are in the same line with other popular pitchfork wielders, but your political leanings have bit you before, why would you associate your company with them?