Apps watching you
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But here's the thing formed...despite what you saying, there's never been any kind of vendetta against any of us personally for its own sake.
Which isn't to say that there aren't companies taking advantage of consumers constantly, but these companies really do want to sell T shirts at the end of the day. And the info they are able to collect about people that is actually usable (demographic stuff like location, gender, and income) is useful for exactly that purpose, trying (most unsuccessfully) to sell you stuff.
Its annoying but more on the level of spam advertising than people coming to your house to take you away. The government knows all that basic stuff about us anyway, and the rest of it isn't really all that interesting, at least I have trouble seeing how it could be.
- You're confusing what the government knows and might have a right to know and what a zillion private 3rd party companies know.Dodecahedron
- ...companies know. Konw it or not citizens of a free countries have a right to protection against people exploiting info.Dodecahedron
- Its not about individuals its about everyone's info.Dodecahedron
- Absolutely, but only if there's a law against it, right? I guess it's hard to motivate people around something like this:)abettertomorrow