“Just Keep the Market Open”Vestager said that the most important message to convey is that “it’s not too late” to stop the exploitation of personal data. Democracy, she said, needs need a new system for “stopping the corruption of our public information ecosystem. But there was thoughtful pushback in Washington, she relates, and an attempt to outline comprehensive federal privacy legislation. Because if you’re an intelligence agency, it’s against the Constitution for you to monitor a civilian population and surveil them. But can you put a big straw out across the country and suck up everything that’s happening in Silicon Valley?