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That is illogical. Declining to hand over unwarranted data to LEO is independent of using user data for commercial purposes. Google also has tight security and privacy from government intrusion

It's contradictory in fact, because data monetizing companies prefer to control data not leak it, to keep the data's price high.

The fee would be ok if the actual education was 2100 hours. But in actuality half of it is pay-to-apprentice and much of that is sitting doing nothing just to fill hours.

There's a key para in the middle. The legislature mooted a bill to reduce the excessive school-hours requirement, but since more paid lobbyists from the schools (paid for by the scam schools that the bill was trying to stop) showed up than victims (who couldn't afford to travel to the senate to beg for help), they dropped the bill.

Also the private schools lobbied successfully to make school was required by law but make publicly funded schools illegal. Their argument was simply that publicly funded school would hurt their profits. Strangely the same economic argument does not apply to the citizens of the state, who are not presumed entitled to profit. Legislatures make laws to protect moneyed interests, not the public.

I hope that salons unite to boycott licensing requirements and hire staff who skip these scam schools.

They perpetuated a fraud by selling something that doesn't exist. They might have invited criminal punishment and personal tort liability.

It's commercialized equal protection under law.