> but let's strong man this instead of finding reasons not to consider it.
Why though? You need to give a good motivation for avoiding the obvious and direct solutions in the first place before anyone sees any reason to go through the effort of strongmanning an alternative. If I was proposing a $50 fine as the penalty for random people caught squatting in your house would you be interested in strawmanning it just because it makes for fun argumentation? I sure wouldn't.
And anyway, I already commented on the merits of this idea in my earlier comments: you're not at all considering the fact that $100 (or even $1000 or more) might be well worth it for certain people's information. It just might not be the entire population, is all. You're just picking winners and losers with this approach, on both sides, is all.
Nobody is likely to catch corporations obtaining or holding information on just a few people they have some special interest in.
They wouldn't even have to store that info in their regular systems.
But making it unsustainable for them to make a habit of it, which is something that impacts millions of people, is possible, with escalating fines.
Also, it doesn't make sense to say a business will just take fines as a cost of business, without taking the size of fines into account. Clearly there is a number that they will respond to, because that is what they do. Respond to hard currency numbers in whatever objective way will let them maximize what they keep.
Why though? You need to give a good motivation for avoiding the obvious and direct solutions in the first place before anyone sees any reason to go through the effort of strongmanning an alternative. If I was proposing a $50 fine as the penalty for random people caught squatting in your house would you be interested in strawmanning it just because it makes for fun argumentation? I sure wouldn't.
And anyway, I already commented on the merits of this idea in my earlier comments: you're not at all considering the fact that $100 (or even $1000 or more) might be well worth it for certain people's information. It just might not be the entire population, is all. You're just picking winners and losers with this approach, on both sides, is all.