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EFF sent out a campaign to their mailing list this morning about how banning it is a bad move for free speech and a better option would be to create actual data privacy laws that companies have to follow to do business in the US, but of course that would just put more money in politicians pockets to ensure it never sees the light of day.
I like the though of enforcing regulations on certain permissions such as location, network info, contacts, etc so apps can't just data mine it. I'd also like laws to make these apps function with certain access restricted by the user. My car app for example pops up with permission requests saying it can't function without getting location data in the background. I just want to remote start my damn car.