How Big Tech Turns Privacy Laws Into Privacy Theater

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How Big Tech Turns Privacy Laws Into Privacy Theater
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The most remarkable thing about Big Tech whistleblowers is how rare they are.

Privacy law is manifested in practice as a litany of “Agree” buttons to consent to data collection and a series of long, convoluted statements of data collection practices that are supposed to give users enough notice about what companies do with our data to enable us to make informed decisions. Almost everyone you ask—policymakers, practitioners, academics—agrees that this system is inadequate.

. And even if we did and were offended by what we saw, we rarely have privacy-protective alternatives.Newer privacy laws like the General Data Protection Regulation in Europe and the California Consumer Privacy Act, as well as orders from the Federal Trade Commission, feature more notice and rights to access, correct, move, and delete our data, combined with a series of internal compliance obligations for companies. Despite the lack of comprehensive privacy legislation in the U.S.

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