Laws and regulation are only local maxima on the capabilities of technology and how they will be applied.
Consumer protection from this stuff is a joke in the age where GDPR skinner boxes give people feelings of warm fuzzies when continuing to download crApps on to their platforms to suck up everything passively and with users active engagement, to backends that are ever more becoming open to the public for consumption (due to the lack of corporate accountability on such downsides). Combine that with increasingly cheaper storage costs, and more people becoming knowledgeable of the tools… yeah if one is banking on MSFT and its current behemoth brethren forever maintaining an advantage…
Kings of years past wanted to regulate the use of the printing press, and were modestly successful at first, though only in time most people realized that such diktats were futile.
Consumer protection from this stuff is a joke in the age where GDPR skinner boxes give people feelings of warm fuzzies when continuing to download crApps on to their platforms to suck up everything passively and with users active engagement, to backends that are ever more becoming open to the public for consumption (due to the lack of corporate accountability on such downsides). Combine that with increasingly cheaper storage costs, and more people becoming knowledgeable of the tools… yeah if one is banking on MSFT and its current behemoth brethren forever maintaining an advantage…
Kings of years past wanted to regulate the use of the printing press, and were modestly successful at first, though only in time most people realized that such diktats were futile.