Nobody sees themselves as a "special interest". They believe they are fighting the good fight against "special interests". That's the attitude shown below.
https://twitter.com/LAM_Barrett/status/1410261818136842243
The people fighting for "privacy" are not working in the public interest. They've given you a popup on every website you visit asking if you want to accept cookies, which is meaningless and stupid.
Privacy invasion is in the public interest. For example, Apple and Google maps can tell you the time to your destination and route your around traffic jams because they get all this information about traffic by monitor phone locations.
This is a "free" benefit that everyone gets in exchange for giving up a little privacy.
Similarly, stores provide discounts in exchange for private information because it benefits their ability to plan.
Similarly, stores provide discounts in exchange for private information because it benefits their ability to plan.
The major difference between U.S. and asian pandemic response hasn't been mask wearing or vaccines, it's been privacy invasion and contact tracing. This doesn't mean we should live in a police state like China, but it does mean we should recognize the costs of privacy.
The point of this thread is that "public interest lawyers and academics fighting for privacy laws" are not working in your own interest. They are Holy Warriors fighting a crusade that is their own special interest.
The more they demand government regulate industries, the more those industries have to hire people to either combat or comply with regulation. The sinister implication isn't that they are preventing government regulation, but that there's already too much government regulation.
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