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I'm comfortable with such a qualification. Glad we can violently agree. ;-)

• tptacek 9y ago
  That's a really short list of companies, though! There are a lot of companies that each independently hold a ghastly amount of information about random people that have virtually no meaningful controls over this stuff. "No meaningful controls" is the norm. I'd also say it's the norm among most Fortune 500 non-tech companies.
  • RhodesianHunter 9y ago
    Yep. Equifax, Experian and Transunion come to mind.
    • harryh 9y ago
      These are great counterpoints to the view I expressed and does make me reconsider my assumptions somewhat. Thanks!
    • tptacek 9y ago
      Consider also every large adtech firm.
      • kasey_junk 9y ago
        Even the very largest adtech firms don’t have messenger apps used by millions of people, social graphs of the population or control of large swaths of the internet infrastructure. That’s not to say I disagree with you, but the data collected is (to me) orders of magnitude less sensitive. *disclosure: I toil in the adtech mines.