"I don't want you using anything I might have done here to make money," said the guy who just got a bunch of not-free-to-create, not-free-to-serve content for nothing.
We can bemoan the current state of things all we like, but people still need to be paid for their time. The only real effect of the type of privacy legislation Schneier advocates would be to make explicit and thorough opt-in mandatory in order to access most content - the average individual would effectively have less privacy than they did before the legislation.
We can bemoan the current state of things all we like, but people still need to be paid for their time. The only real effect of the type of privacy legislation Schneier advocates would be to make explicit and thorough opt-in mandatory in order to access most content - the average individual would effectively have less privacy than they did before the legislation.