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The Ugliness of Privacy Notices
However, just so that I am not accused of breaking character, there are two "big-picture" points that should be made.
1. Corporations do NOT do a reasonable job of protecting a customers data. Virtually every corporate privacy notice states (after you take out the fluff): "We will protect your privacy by selling your personal information to anyone who pays."
2. I would advocate a regulation that would prohibit automatic customer "opt-in" by corporations and the sale/rental/sharing of customer information by corporations.
There is a substantial and growing information economy that we're all a part of and that we all benefit from. In the online environment, at least, the small minority that wants to drop out can use the technologies Declan describes to do so.