alt Hacker NewsBecause not everyone is an expert in security and privacy and yet benefits from having some. This is why we regulate things.
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I don't have to be an expert. I already have a literal super computer in my pocket:
Bing: "How do I protect my privacy online?" Results: 11,700,000
I don't need to smart enough to build a rocket to go to Mars. I just need to type a basic query into a search engine. Not only do I get 11M results, I now have an AI assistant telling me how I can do that. The results also list ads from companies who can do that for you, written tutorials on how do that, articles on how to do that and a bunch of videos as well.
Is this the insurmountable obstacle you talk about when you say not everybody is an expert in security and privacy??
C'mon man.
> This is why we regulate things.
Unless by "we" you mean "the EU economic zone" then no, "we" really don't. As an American I have been exposed, for the past 15 years, to the blatant failure of any genuine attempt to protect consumer rights or privacy in the nation where both Android and iOS originated. We, the progenitors of the smartphone, have failed to impose any form of substantial regulation that would seriously enable privacy for the end-user.
It's no coincidence. Phone hardware is only worth so much, but the data it generates is priceless. The secondhand market for information enabled by the NSA and industrial contractors like Palantir provides the intelligence backbone of the global economy. The United States' negligence towards Google and Apple is a proven quid-pro-quo agreement.