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It's not always a choice, though. If I need to rent a car, I need a credit card. Now my credit card company knows where I went on vacation or traveled for work.
by stinkytaco 9y ago
It's not always a choice, though. If I need to rent a car, I need a credit card. Now my credit card company knows where I went on vacation or traveled for work. I have to have an email account, but if I apply for a job, now my email providers knows quite a bit about me.
None of these things are necessarily the end of the world if there's some data protection guarantee. But to say it's simply a choice ignores how much data other people have on us, just by going about our daily lives.
- bithive123 9y agoWhat I'm saying is that it's immoral for your credit card company to spy on you, regardless of what language they snuck into your contract. Same for your email provider. It's even less acceptable if a company uses its customers to spy on people who aren't customers. To rationalize it by saying "well, you could have used a different bank" is self-indulgent nonsense.