Why have costly government regulation when users can just quit?
Plenty of other online and offline ways to connect with the people in your life.
Plenty of other online and offline ways to connect with the people in your life.
The government should have bigger fish to fry than trying to regulate the distribution of information that you have and continue to willingly provide to a company. If you don't like it, sure government could jump in and make Facebook just how you like it, or you could delete the info you don't want them to have. The later sounds easier on everyone.
There are some things users/people did not sign up for and cannot (reasonably) opt out of that still harm them. This is what regulations are for.
Unfortunately, whether you created a profile or not, you can't just "not use Facebook" with their whole shadow profiles.
Sure, they aren't (currently) pumping waste into the environment. I'm not saying those things aren't important, but I do think we're going to look back 10 years from now and wonder how we let Facebook even get this bad.