Yeap, I agree with government regulation to protect us from stupidity. The reason is simple enough: we can't be experts in everything.

Put another way: I know a fair bit about how computers work and how the Internet works. (By extension, I know a fair bit about how mobile phones work.) Then again, I'm interested in how computers and the Internet work. Yet, for most people, the Internet is just a bit of magic that they use to get stuff done. A great many people know that you don't post stuff that you don't want other people to see on Facebook, and a great many people know that you don't punch your credit card number into a dodgy site. Yet those very same people may not have a clue that the game on their phone interacts with the GPS on their phone to report location data. They may not know their phone has that capabilities, they may not be aware that games can access those capabilities, or they may not know why a game would want to know their location.

Now I suppose you can be judgemental and call those people lazy and stupid. Personally, I don't. There is far too much to know about this technology for anyone but an enthusiast or a professional to properly understand. Even then, enthusiasts such as myself are only kidding themselves if they claim to fully understand it because there is such a massive volume of knowledge out there and it changes so rapidly. (Example: 10 years ago, video games couldn't tell the developers where you were playing the game down to a meter.) I also understand that for all my knowledge about technology, I am also lacking knowledge in other parts of life. Yet I wouldn't want people who have knowledge that I'm lacking to judge me as ignorant and lazy, so why should I do that to them for stuff that I know and they don't.