. . . the US does not seem to think so

@FearlessFly Exactly!

@LucyLoohoo ( "devils' advocate" ) . . . how to respond to government officials when they say "folks going online are giving their personal info away 'freely' and ubiquitously, why should the government regulate that" ?

@FearlessFly How would the government's collection of such personal data be justified?

@LucyLoohoo National Security
. . . btw, there is the point (barring legitimate security reasons) that ANY info the government has, the people have a right to have also.

I was referring to all the commercially collected data.