Further Control Your Private Data

For many people, just being able to see their data isn’t enough — and it’s likely that an all-encompassing privacy law would go one step further. Namely, GPDR-esque privacy regulations would require that users have the ultimate control over their data.

That means that tech firms and data collectors wouldn’t be able to harvest your data without explicit consent. Though, of course, simply using a platform — and skipping past the terms of usage agreement — may be consent enough for data collection to occur.

But under a privacy law, users could also delete their data. That’s already the case in Europe, where users can systematically erase certain portions of data that companies have collected on them (known as the right to be forgotten). Apple CEO Tim Cook has even called for a centralized system where users can delete their data “on demand.”