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Why is collecting all this information suddenly OK as long as it's "only" used for Advertising purposes?

Is there a reason we also also forbid Google and FB from gathering this information? Or are their business models too important, and we can't decrease shareholder value?

Or since "the users" click-agreed the business model is absolved and it's okay! What could go wrong, ever?

Or, a modest proposal: we could agree that even corporations who sell HW/SW for personal devices shouldn't be allowed to collect this data, period. No one needs to mine our GPS history, messages, search, etc. Even if it means those who do it today makes less money.

Ads are fine, but maybe we agree it's fine if ads aren't quite as targeted, either.

I'm wondering if we might be better off with "punch the monkey" than hyper tracking and targeting.