There is no other way to say this: that is a simplistic non-solution.
This is akin to saying: if you desire privacy, you can just clear your cookies.
There will always be a way to find these "name reset" folks - the privacy policies if services will have sentences like "to combat fraud..." "to protect the service..."
This will seem reasonable because one person desiring privacy shouldn't be able to skip out on a utility bill!
Without regulation - strong regulation - this won't change anything. Unfortunately it seems like anti-business regulation rarely works - if bills progress, they are defanged at the last minute.
The reason the EU has these laws is they remember people being put to death, even with minimal data collected in the pen-and-paper era.
Even though the US had pearl harbor, they haven't had their data pearl harbor moment.
I worry that we might have passed a "point of no dissent", where groups and even individuals in favor of privacy regulation can be surgically removed from dissent.
> There will always be a way to find these "name reset" folks
No problem, you just need simultaneously to change your name, your address, your bank account and credit card, your friends, your hobbies, and your biometric properties. Of course, also buy a new computer with different hardware, and install different applications.
Then hope you didn't forget anything, otherwise you need to do the whole thing again.
I love this solution, as it reveals that the "name reset" answer is not given in good faith. "become someone else" is not an answer to "how to remove this from myself".
This is akin to saying: if you desire privacy, you can just clear your cookies.
There will always be a way to find these "name reset" folks - the privacy policies if services will have sentences like "to combat fraud..." "to protect the service..."
This will seem reasonable because one person desiring privacy shouldn't be able to skip out on a utility bill!
Without regulation - strong regulation - this won't change anything. Unfortunately it seems like anti-business regulation rarely works - if bills progress, they are defanged at the last minute.
The reason the EU has these laws is they remember people being put to death, even with minimal data collected in the pen-and-paper era.
Even though the US had pearl harbor, they haven't had their data pearl harbor moment.
I worry that we might have passed a "point of no dissent", where groups and even individuals in favor of privacy regulation can be surgically removed from dissent.