It was just that: an analogy, and a bad one. In the physical world you don't have Google knocking on the door and taking copies of your photo albums and the co

It was just that: an analogy, and a bad one. In the physical world you don't have Google knocking on the door and taking copies of your photo albums and the contents of your address books, filing cabinets and in return making you look at adverts. You can of course deploy a baseball bat (uBlock etc) for some small, conciliatory, relief at the ads but your data is no longer yours. Its not even the commons, to benefit us all. Your data is simply part of a bloody great marketing machine. Quite an efficient one. Is https://www.shodan.io/ https://www.shodan.io/ criminal? They twiddle the doorknobs in everyone's neighbourhood but at least they tell you what they are up to.