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DigitalOcean is an infrastructure company that charges for its services. Do you expect your doctor to similarly "share your data" for "ads and promotions"? No,

• bogomipz 10y ago
  I think you make an important point. Its one thing if you are partaking in free service such FB or Google et al but when you are exchanging money for good or services I think this crosses the line. Recent examples of this I have seen are AT&T who sent out notice about Customer Proprietary Network Information, basically selling your data even though in the US you are likely paying AT&T > $100 a month. This blogs has the actual notification: http://ivebeenmugged.typepad.com/my_weblog/2016/03/att-cpni.html http://ivebeenmugged.typepad.com/my_weblog/2016/03/att-cpni.... Ditto for Verizon with their supercookies. In Verizon/AT&Ts case their position seems to be "well Google and FB are doing it." and we need to compete. Another recent example was was ING now Voya Financial Services that manages a 401K retirement accounts sent out a notification to customers explaining that they would be sharing your data with third parties. This is really a disturbing trend. If the service is free then I think your infomration is fair game but when I am paying for something it needs to be opt in. And almost without waver the reason these companies give for such actions is "so we can provide yo with better service"
• unethical_ban 10y ago
  Hell, in today's day and age, if we didn't have HIPAA, I absolutely would expect doctors to offer discounts in exchange for sharing my health data with researchers and drug makers. It's sad, and I don't advocate it, but it's true.