Hat-tip Matt Black!
Corporate privacy invasions are often opaque or invisible to customers or poorly understood by them. In other cases, lack of choices leaves consumers with little alternative but to give up their privacy in exchange for valuable services. As a result, marketplace competition is typically not a sufficient force to protect consumers’ privacy. The ACLU works to promote carefully constructed statutory protections so that we can enjoy innovative new goods and services without giving up our privacy.
Read more:
ACLU. (2021). Consumer privacy. https://www.aclu.org/issues/privacy-technology/consumer-privacy