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Maybe they do, maybe they don't use it. Point is, there is no guarantee they will never use it for wrong. How about data breach? Can they also guarantee that t

• Silhouette 9y ago
  If you want to work with other people then at some point you will often have to share some information with them so you can work together. Privacy can't be measured only in terms of absolute control over who has information at all. As a practical matter, it has to be more nuanced, also working at the level of how someone is allowed to use information given to them. Now, there's plenty of scope for debate about that, for example in what uses should be accepted as reasonable by default, what should require explicit consent, and what should be subject to someone opting out even if it's allowed by default. Much of the data protection framework in Europe, both past and near future, exists in this space. But there also has to be a balance, because if you start assuming ill intent and trying to prevent anyone from doing anything with personal data just in case it might be leaked or abused in some hypothetical future, you stop being able to work with other people effectively at all. In this context, paranoia is no more helpful than complacency.