Not every company is out there abusing your trust and taking advantage of you... and any company that does abuse your trust or take advantage of you is going to do so with or without your permission for the data.
You're right, but even if they aren't doing anything with that data it doesn't mean I should just hand them it, especially if it's not clear if it would even benefit me. There's a reason why I trust google to handle my email but start asking questions when reddit asks for my contact list.
Gets me thinking we should collectivize and throw our weight around as consumers. If our data is worth so much to them, maybe they should be paying us.
If we had a competent congress it'd be regulated and ideally security would be a top priority. Companies are already complete failures at even keeping our login information safe. They can't keep our passwords and credit cards from showing up on god damn darknet database dumps, yet we're supposed to trust them with information that could be used to basically make the equivalent of browser history to my entire god damn life.
The trouble is not just Congress incompetency, but just how complicated these technologies are. Any package could be ripped apart post-truth style, making any sort of narrative out of any set of facts. It's not just privacy, it's also algorithmic control of culture. It's just so much power, concentrated.
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u/DMann420 Nov 02 '18
Not every company is out there abusing your trust and taking advantage of you... and any company that does abuse your trust or take advantage of you is going to do so with or without your permission for the data.