Protecting Privacy While Promoting Innovation And Competition

Protecting Privacy While Promoting Innovation And Competition

4 years ago
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https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200608/11241444667/protecting-privacy-while-promoting-innovation-competition.shtml

It may be the tech giants that dominate the headlines when it comes to privacy, but it's startups that stand the most to lose in the ongoing debate about consumer privacy.

With every major misstep from the industry's biggest companies, consumers lose trust in the Internet ecosystem. It's the new startups that don't have long standing reputations and relationships with users that consumers that abandon first. At the same time, startups don't have the seemingly endless resources of their big tech counterparts to navigate the resulting legal and regulatory landscape if privacy laws are written with only the biggest tech companies in mind.