How should markets, businesses, groups, and individuals be regulated or limited differently in the face of diminishing state power and the intelligification (Verbeek, p. 217) and networking of the material world?

For individuals, groups, businesses, and markets to be effectively regulated, it requires a reflection of what it means or determines what kinds of information are private or public. Therefore, there needs to be the formation of a foundation for future privacy issues that manages and determines what’s considered private information and how it must be managed to prevent risks associated with leaks and theft of private information. In addition to this, there needs to be transparency within the regulations for businesses’ privacy policies. For example., an organization such as an advertising firm should be held accountable by having to reveal what information they’re obtaining from groups and individuals, such as the data they’ve gathered and used for heavy advertising and selling for revenue. Furthermore, the foundation would require information on limits that must be put in place to monitor the kind of information gathered for there to be far fewer issues and risks regarding data being used for targeting groups of people.

Additionally, a reflection of privacy will also have an impact on individuals and social media companies. For example, social media apps like Facebook and Twitter are plagued with waves of misinformation, which impacts users regarding how they perceive truth and false information. Because of that, a sizeable change in the terms of service would definitely mitigate the issue. Furthermore, informing individuals that use social media about how to go about using those platforms effectively, will make great changes that include less leaked information. Overall, it’s important that there’s an extensive review of the current policies in place and that a well-needed reflection on them is necessary for the bettering of all groups connected to the Internet.