Comprehensive Consumer Data Privacy

Comprehensive consumer data privacy is the regulatory approach favored by the [[ElectronicFrontierFoundation|Electronic Frontier Foundation]] in Would banning teens from social media violate their First Amendment rights?. Aaron Mackey argues that many social-media harms are tied to invasive privacy practices, opaque collection, and targeting by dominant platforms, so regulation should constrain the data business model rather than broadly ban minors from access.

The concept extends the wiki’s Platform Data Regulation branch from deletion and auditability toward collection limits and user control. It also supplies a civil-liberties alternative to California AB 1709: reduce surveillance-driven harm without using age gates that can burden Youth Online Speech Rights or adult access to lawful speech.

Key Claims

• Privacy law can target platform incentives without making lawful speech access depend on age verification.
• Collection limits, targeting limits, transparency, and user control are different tools from parental consent or under-16 bans.
• The source frames surveillance-based platform design as harmful to adults as well as children.
• Comprehensive privacy regulation can complement litigation over harmful design, but it is not the same as Social Media Product Liability.

Connections

• [[ElectronicFrontierFoundation|Electronic Frontier Foundation]] and Aaron Mackey - source organization and speaker.
• Platform Data Regulation, Consumer Data Deletion, and Data Broker Loophole - existing data-governance branch.
• California AB 1709, Youth Online Speech Rights, and Social Media Age-Gate Speech Burden - access-ban branch it is proposed to avoid.
• Social Media Product Liability, Meta, and YouTube - adjacent platform-accountability branch.
• Civil Liberties Surveillance Risk and Attention Industrialization - broader risk context around surveillance and behavioral targeting.