One example might be just the terms and conditions on social media. We will agree to the harvesting of all kinds of data for whatever purposes because we want to use that app. Most of the studies show that what we're all undergoing is privacy fatigue, where we essentially know it's bad for us, but agree to it anyway. This is really paternalistic and this is the problem. Essentially, what we're saying is that people shouldn't be agreeing to this because they don't really understand what they're agreeing to. It's then being sold on to data brokers, which Dr. Caraway talked about, and then we lose control. We don't actually know what happens to the data.
California does a better job, with its law, of basically saying you need to be able to track that data and who it all goes to. If you rely on consent, you can withdraw that consent and know where that data goes. All those are avenues to data protection and privacy laws.