>having a phone with Google on it could be kind of dangerous to me. As I'm not doing anything like that, I have no reason not to use it. So those doing nothing

>having a phone with Google on it could be kind of dangerous to me. As I'm not doing anything like that, I have no reason not to use it. So those doing nothing wrong have nothing to fear? Isn't that a far-right argument? What about states where marijuana is legal but the ATF/feds still break down your house because it's not legal on a federal level? What if Trump decides to go after anyone he thinks is a "drug dealer"? He surely didn't focus his acts when he made the Muslim ban instead of a terrorist ban. And what about when the government started tracking and wire-tapping journalists under the last presidency? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Department_of_Justice_investigations_of_reporters https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Department_of_Justice_inv... We like to pretend our country is "the good guys" but we track and suppress journalists and dissenters (and break and ban encryption) just like any other country and we should NOT be giving companies that ASSIST and ENABLE that draconian act any moral slack. This isn't a movie, this is real life and it's going on right now. People's lives are affected by data. What happens when some neo-con makes an app that correlates people's user ID's and finds anyone who went to a gay club, and outs them. Uber, for example, has all the required information. And now we know that Google does too. And the only protection we have is the "hope" or "trust" that Google is 1) unhackable, 2) unpersuadable by governments or financial interests and 3) infallible in implementation with no exploits. I keep saying it and I'll say it again: "The only unhackable data, is data that's never collected in the first place." The more valuable the data, the more incentive there is to get it through legal or illegal means. And nation-states are definitely watching and exploiting useful data. We see it in massive breaches every month.