If my web app can kill you, sure we should add regulations that I have to follow and prove that I am following.
That is beside the point, though; I wasn't saying regulations were wrong, just that it is unfair to say "If you don't like this particular regulation than you don't care about customers"
That is wrong. You can disagree with how a regulation is implemented and still agree with the idea of having a regulation.
If my web app can kill you, sure we should add regulations that I have to follow and prove that I am following.
The Ashley Madison leak has been linked to at least one suicide. But in any case, even if your data can't gravely harm someone by itself, it can when it's linked with other datasets. As the U.S. Privacy Protection Study Commission presciently wrote in their 1977 report,
"The real danger is the gradual erosion of individual liberties through the automation, integration, and interconnection of many small, separate record-keeping systems, each of which alone may seem innocuous, even benevolent, and wholly justifiable."
That is beside the point, though; I wasn't saying regulations were wrong, just that it is unfair to say "If you don't like this particular regulation than you don't care about customers"
That is wrong. You can disagree with how a regulation is implemented and still agree with the idea of having a regulation.