> Once data gets out it's impossible to completely take back
As a society, we understand that rights !== access. Just because you share your data with Facebook, giving them access to it, in the normal course of interacting with their servers does not grant them rights to that data.
When Netflix delivers a video to your device, society understands you can’t make a copy of that video and share it with your neighbor. That’s called “The Pirate Bay.”
Data on the internet is lacking equity: an ownership interest in property. As you generate data online, platforms accumulate equity in your data giving them control over that valuable property.
If, instead, you accumulated equity in your data the entire data broker market would be “The Pirate Bay.”
This. Honestly I'd love a government to take up the privacy mantel and protect its citizens. Sure, you lose the ability to spy on your citizens but so does every other country in the world. Seems like that's a net win.
If USPS was made to ensure that all Americans can communicate, even making it explicit in the constitution. I don't know why this wouldn't also apply to cell phones and the internet. Are they not modern evolutions? Put the code on the gov's GitHub along with the rest. Other players can exist, but it sets a baseline standard. But any country can do this, doesn't need to be the US.
Though I can also see how the incentives of social platforms encourage clamping down further and further on 3P access.