It's an exercise in futility, because Europeans still have their rights under their national laws.

Ultimately, it's a human rights issue in the information age.

There's no way any number of companies will be able to protect human rights through a business model. When things go wrong, people need a [legal] remedy. Right now we don't have that.

One of the linchpins of this whole agreement is now the FTC is going to become an aggressive pit bull for the privacy rights of Europeans,

This could have a chilling effect on how people use the Internet.

This case is a reminder that information that's collected about you can be used in ways you never imagined.