Facebook famously did an emotion manipulation experiment on 500k randomly selected users.
There's a trial now alleging that Facebook used profile data to discriminate against older programmers in job postings: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17178565
Many types of abuses are subtle and remain unknown for the victims.
Burden of proof lies on the one making the claim.
>Facebook famously did an emotion manipulation experiment on 500k randomly selected users.
I don't really find that abusive or ethically troubling.
>There's a trial now alleging that Facebook used profile data to discriminate against older programmers in job postings:
Maybe this age discrimination, which was already illegal on its own, wouldn't have been possible to commit if the data didn't exist in the first place. That doesn't mean it's the tool's fault or that the tool should be illegal.
I didn’t make a claim, you did, then flipped it around and made one for me. ;)
We can go back and forth about the best way to deal with this, but it's crazy to think that this systemic gobbling up of personal data doesn't have real consequences.
But I can't think of any internet regulation that's ever harmed me. Which ones are you talking about?
Edit: I can think of a small number of regulations (much less than one per year) that cause problems, but they still don't meet the personal concrete harm threshold you've proposed.
Name one way your life was ever negatively impacted, in a concrete way and not just in your head, by companies using your data to create value in the form of targeted ads and such to keep websites free. I'm waiting.