Leaving aside the cynical partisan concerns of a broken clock being kinda-right twice a day... Hawley's approach seems to involve the government mandating some kind of one-time dollar-amount.
This 2019 EFF piece about his past proposals [0] argues that's misguided, a bad match for the power-dynamics. I'd summarize the dystopic outcome as: "Because we paid $X for Y, that means the individual has zero rights or control over it anymore, and we are also totally 100% immunized from any kind of liability even if we somehow use it to utterly destroy their lives, by accident or on purpose."
If the _only_ change is the dollar-thing, companies will just write "you hereby waive" into their EULAs and Terms of Service. If it also come with abandoning other potential rights or claims of liability, then it'll leave consumers worse-off than before.
As a privacy advocated when I talk about "owning" my data, I'm not talking about getting a cut of a company's revenue pie. I'm talking about portability, control, freedom to choose how I present myself online, freedom to choose not to share data.
I explicitly don't want to put a dollar amount on that data if it's at all possible for me to avoid doing so. I usually try to avoid allowing the data to be thought about in economic terms.
How dare they use their unfair amount of legal resources to write limited liability clauses in their TOS that all their users agree to! I'm outraged, Big Tech must be stopped!
> "If you're gonna take it from me, you gotta notify me number one, get my consent number number two, and pay me number three."
This is how the system already works, except the free market skips step 3 because you are nothing to them if not a marginal utility for rent extraction.
This 2019 EFF piece about his past proposals [0] argues that's misguided, a bad match for the power-dynamics. I'd summarize the dystopic outcome as: "Because we paid $X for Y, that means the individual has zero rights or control over it anymore, and we are also totally 100% immunized from any kind of liability even if we somehow use it to utterly destroy their lives, by accident or on purpose."
If the _only_ change is the dollar-thing, companies will just write "you hereby waive" into their EULAs and Terms of Service. If it also come with abandoning other potential rights or claims of liability, then it'll leave consumers worse-off than before.
[0] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/07/knowing-value-our-data...