Overwhelming US majorities favor rights-to-be-forgotten style data control
Evidence
In fact, the smart money appeared not to be all that smart. In the year following the EU decision, a national poll of US adults found that 88 percent supported a law similar to the right to be forgotten. That year, Pew Research found that 93 percent of Americans believed that it was important to have control of “who can get information about you.” A series of polls echoed these findings. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 188
Categorization
- SEED: The ‘smart money’ framing is a recurring hook — an essay could track how prediction markets or elite consensus repeatedly misjudge public privacy sentiment.
- ADDENDUM: The gap between public opinion and regulatory reality is a live case of surveillance-capitalism power over democracies — relevant to any institutionalist account.
- XREF: connects to: Public majorities consistently favor stronger privacy protections in surveys — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1074; GDPR reverses US law by making companies justify data activities under regulation — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1536; Majorities of Americans support a US right to be forgotten — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1807 (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- Property-based and data-portability arguments for privacy have limits and alternatives
#complicates(0.70) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 1101