How companies use & sell your data
Dan Williams
Nov 24, 2025
The Problem
Your Digital Life is Not Private
We live more of our lives online than ever before. Every time you scroll through social media, send an email, use an app, or browse a website, massive companies are quietly collecting information about you.
You don't know what they know: Most people have no idea what personal information is being collected, where it is being stored, or who it is being shared with. Your name, location, browsing habits, contacts, and purchase history are all being tracked and traded.
The rules are too confusing: The rules are currently set by complex, lengthy "Terms and Conditions" documents that almost no one reads. This means companies can easily use your information in ways you never agreed to or intended.
Your data is vulnerable: When huge amounts of personal data are centralized and stored without strong legal standards, it creates a massive target for hackers and a high risk of damaging data breaches.
In short: You have lost meaningful control over your own digital information, and current laws do not offer strong enough protection.
The Solution
Giving You Control Over Your Own Data
The Digital Information Protection Act is a proposed new law that gives you, the individual, a firm set of rights over your own digital information, much like laws in other successful democracies.
This law aims to create a clear and fair framework by doing the following:
Require Consent, Not Confusion: Companies must ask for your explicit, documented consent in simple, clear language before collecting and using your data. They cannot bury requests in legal jargon.
Give You Access and Control: You will have the legal right to ask any company:
What data do you have on me? (Right to Access)
Please fix it if it's wrong. (Right to Correct)
Please delete all of it. (The "Right to be Forgotten")
Ensure Security: Companies that handle your data will be legally required to implement strong security measures to protect it from breaches and misuse.
Establish Enforcement: A dedicated government authority will be created to enforce these new protections, holding companies accountable with clear penalties (including criminal penalties for severe violations).
In short: This solution ensures that your personal information is treated as your property, giving you the power to see, control, and protect your digital life.
Your opinions are the first step in crafting the final version of this law. We want to know where you stand on key issues that will shape the Digital Information Protection Act.
Please review these statements and indicate whether you agree, disagree, or pass.
You can also add your own ideas to start new threads of discussion.
Your feedback will be carefully analyzed and used directly to refine and shape the proposed legislation before it is ever introduced to Congress.