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The US needs to grow some backbone and pass equivalent privacy (and antitrust, while they're at it) laws. If something is a certain way in both the US and EU, most tech companies won't bother doing any differently worldwide.

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It isn't a matter of backbone. Legislators are simply representing the interests of their customers, such as Experian and Facebook.

This seems incompatible with democracy.

We can blame/credit the Citizens United Supreme Court decision.

I guess the problems started much earlier, and that court decision was actually a result of such issues.

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