The jury is still out on whether the things made possible by the data your phone provides to Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft (lol), Verizon, the NSA, etc. do

The jury is still out on whether the things made possible by the data your phone provides to Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft (lol), Verizon, the NSA, etc. doesn't provide for a net negative in the end as well. I'm doing OK YOY compared against Google, but I'm young and educated. Most people probably aren't.