<story><title>Study claims Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft work to derail data rules</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/27/big_tech_privacy/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DANK_YACHT</author><text>&amp;gt; Privacy regulations can make it very difficult for competitors to gain traction for incumbents&lt;p&gt;This is an oft repeated argument that makes no sense. The point of privacy legislation is not to increase competition. The point is to increase privacy. The government has other legislative tools to increase competition should it wish to do so.</text></item><item><author>indymike</author><text>Privacy regulations can make it very difficult for competitors to gain traction for incumbents, so there is active lobbying to get regulatory barriers to competition in play. At the same time, far too much money is being made to allow laws and regulations  to kill revenues... so it gets complicated. The easy way is to just say you are all for privacy, and then oppose it at every turn.&lt;p&gt;Another issue is this: breaking some of these privacy laws both in force and proposed, is really quite easy to do - as easy as a misconfigured logger or a developer including the wrong field in a query.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spicybright</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s like saying &amp;quot;Regulations against dumping garbage into oceans can make it very competitors to gain traction for incumbents.&amp;quot;</text></comment>
<story><title>Study claims Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft work to derail data rules</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/27/big_tech_privacy/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DANK_YACHT</author><text>&amp;gt; Privacy regulations can make it very difficult for competitors to gain traction for incumbents&lt;p&gt;This is an oft repeated argument that makes no sense. The point of privacy legislation is not to increase competition. The point is to increase privacy. The government has other legislative tools to increase competition should it wish to do so.</text></item><item><author>indymike</author><text>Privacy regulations can make it very difficult for competitors to gain traction for incumbents, so there is active lobbying to get regulatory barriers to competition in play. At the same time, far too much money is being made to allow laws and regulations  to kill revenues... so it gets complicated. The easy way is to just say you are all for privacy, and then oppose it at every turn.&lt;p&gt;Another issue is this: breaking some of these privacy laws both in force and proposed, is really quite easy to do - as easy as a misconfigured logger or a developer including the wrong field in a query.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hhw</author><text>I think the point he was trying to make is that big tech can use privacy regulations to keep out new competitors, rather than encourage them, as compliance with privacy regulations can create a higher barrier to entry</text></comment>