1. Your claim is people don't care about privacy. I say they never considered the implications, and provided evidence that people do switch from "not caring" to

1. Your claim is people don't care about privacy. I say they never considered the implications, and provided evidence that people do switch from "not caring" to "caring" in some situations. We don't know whether people would care about the collection of meta-data because they've never seriously thought about the matter. Your assertion that people don't care is still false. 2. I am using the technical (dictionary) definition of "begging the question" and I'm using it correctly. We're not in agreement whether the data collection is fine. You say it is, I say it isn't. Begging the question is the fallacy where you assume the statement under examination to be true, which do you when you label collection "benign". After all, if I agreed it's benign we wouldn't be having this discussion. 3. Non-sequitur. 4. No evidence has been provided that opting out entirely will be possible, and it's not possible today, so it stands to reason it won't be possible in the future either (except perhaps with registry hacks).