However, future malicious data breaches will facilitate this transition as consumers
demand more privacy protections and entrepreneurs look to fill this need.
If data is the oil of the internet economy, as the spills proliferate, the revelation of social and search media's damaging impact on free democratic elections in the U.S. and possibly the EU could be the Exxon Valdez that finally
prompts more privacy protection policy, regulation and corporate activism.
The organization also believes that
more privacy protections should be enshrined in law.
Also, «more surveillance» and «
more privacy protection» seems mostly mutually exclusive (and the former is typically associated with British - style center left and their CCTV, than the right, at least in USA).
This proposal comes at a time when privacy experts are calling for more oversight and
more privacy protection, not less — for instance, the Privacy Commissioner of Canada has emphasized the need to strengthen PIPEDA to respond to today's digital landscape.