Emil O W Kirkegaard

Designers build affordances into sites to protect users from harm. Removing data from that ecosystem obviates those protections.

And it goes beyond simple theft. If you really don't think that this data was snagged by Kushner (investor in @howaboutwe, btw)...

@Parscale, Cambridge Analytica, identity theft rings, stalkers, and folks with all sorts of other nefarious intentions...

the complicity of those who published the data in whatever crimes were later committed using said data must be ensured.

And those who make use of unlicensed data must also be held criminally, not just civilly liable.

Until they are, we're going to keep having election cycles decided by microtargeting and fine-grained psychological manipulation.

We're going to keep having people, especially victims of domestic violence and stalking, be restricted from participation in social life.

Predators will remain sanctioned to identify and target their prey in ways that put more and more individuals at risk.