Not a rant, but a question.

Why is their so much fear of Google and Microsoft misusing information they collect?

What proof is there of this (provide references and cases, for a proper argument)?

What would you have these companies do to resolve the issues you brought up above?

I'm sorry if I seem ignorant, I'm genuinely unaware of all this. I'm willing to learn provided it's a fair analysis.

hello charyas, from which city and country are posting this right now? what is your age? will you mind tell me what your favorite type of games you like to play, who your friends are, who is your crush, do you tend to browse her facebook and other social media alot like a stalker? which type of porn do you like to watch, what fetishes in particular, what is the most embarrassing stuff you did lately? Is there anything that may be illegal in your country that you did but havent told anyone? are you *sure* you havent done *anything* that could be see as illegal? do you have a familiar in a important place in your country? are you a great example for your family? do they know what you browse every night?.
I mean there is NOTHING wrong with getting that stuff, right? I fully triple swear I will never use that info in any way for my own advantage or hurt yo

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@legionfrontier I see, that's a good talk to look at. Thank you for responding, I think I've got the jist of it now.

Here's a follow-up question.

Do these companies not, in their privacy policies and terms and conditions statements, not legally attempt to make us aware of the collection of our information?

It's not tiny text, the links to these documents is clear and evident.

Can we blame the company if we agree to these statements without taking our time to look at them like we could?

A possible argument for this might be the complicated language used in the documents but isn't that still our fault if we don't read it properly?

Say I'm a stationery store owner and I gave a scissor to a student old enough to handle one for their work, and I told them to read the safety guidelines on the notice board. They don't and they end up stabbing someone. Is that my fault, then?

Then, the only time we can blame these companies is when they don't mention it to the customer and do it anyway without consent. Is there any evidence of this?

It's the thing that although they're obviously bound by laws, they can still use the data however they see fit. The biggest Facebook example, in Europe they said you could opt out of WhatsApp number sharing/linking with facebook. That option was introduced but they linked it anyways resulting in a 10 million euro fine and an official sorry but they do have that data now.

It's very simple, how can data be (ab)used later on? We don't know exactly yet but just the fact that those companies know everything about you scares the living crap out of me.

Also a lot of people are just ignorant and don't know about the data collection while maybe not even being fine with it! My mom got a gmail address with a website she let someone make and she didn't know about the data collection until I have her a warning about that.

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