> 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.