Legislation is not impotent, but it’s very far from omnipotent. Information flows around the rules, if you let it out. Regularly we see stories how how you can buy all sorts of records from corrupt government employees. I doubt we can stop corruption.

In addition, we can’t solve the problem of future surveillance technologies that most people have not dreamed of. Today there is not adequate AI to understand all this data we’ve let out, but there will be, and laws won’t stop it.