The US has been dismantling the rule of law for decades. They call it "deregulation".
Your response is mostly hyperbole, and indicated an axe to grind. You can be against deregulation, but it's not applicable to the question posed.
There were no data gathering laws "dismantled" in the name of "deregulation." You statement is false.
What is happening here is what has always happened: Laws are almost always a step behind technology. Only very rarely are conditions prohibited by legislation before an offense is committed.
GDPR and the California thing are good steps in the right direction, but they're just the landing of a very long staircase. Hopefully we'll get to the top eventually.
Sure, there were no laws to remove in this case, but when the political ideal is deregulation it's very hard to make new laws. It's the same underlying ideal of "government bad" which is just wrong.
Your response is mostly hyperbole, and indicated an axe to grind. You can be against deregulation, but it's not applicable to the question posed.
There were no data gathering laws "dismantled" in the name of "deregulation." You statement is false.
What is happening here is what has always happened: Laws are almost always a step behind technology. Only very rarely are conditions prohibited by legislation before an offense is committed.
GDPR and the California thing are good steps in the right direction, but they're just the landing of a very long staircase. Hopefully we'll get to the top eventually.