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I am perfectly fine with that, in fact I expect it when using services like google and facebook. I expect that facebook is crunching my data and feeding me ads,

• kuschku 11y ago
  Well, it's simple: If people are outraged when you tell them what facebook actually stores, then it's not okay. And the outrage exists. I do not think anyone should store anything about me unless I explicitly want to give it to them. One example is Google's horrible traffic tracking system. In my city every lane of every intersection has a separate inductive loop to measure traffic congestion, speed and amount. Also every few hundred meters between intersections. Perfect data, and you only collect as much as necessary. In comparison, Google's system: Track the location of everyone, and then check if people are moving slowly on a road in a car. One of these stores an Orwellian amount of information, the other stores just as much as necessary. Anyway, as a German, I hate this type of data collection. Yes, I openly admit, I hate the business model of the US startup industry. And I hope this fad stops very soon, as currently we have a truly dystopian nightmare of data collection. Just think about what a less-democratic government could do if they'd get elected in the US in a few years. They could seize Google's data, force them to comply (like the NSA already did) and then use the data against the people. You have location data of almost everyone, and not just for now, but for every day for the past 5 years. With 5 minutes accuracy. You have banking data and access, emails, browser and search history. This is too much power that rests in a single place. Potential for abuse is insane.