I am not a big advocate of government intervention as their "solutions" are often worse than the original problem. But I do believe government has a legitimate role in protecting people from "force and fraud" (as opposed to protecting people from their own poor choices). I believe when companies like Facebook "harvest" contacts without explicit informed consent (i.e. a clearly worded explanation and a choice of whether or not to participate) they are committing fraud and need to face substantial legal consequences.This sort of thing keeps happening because there are no real consequences. A million-dollar fine per e-mail address would change things very, very quickly IMO.