>I think it would benefit large companies like Microsoft to realise that this sort of behaviour has knock-on effects. Every MS product is tainted by this becaus

>I think it would benefit large companies like Microsoft to realise that this sort of behaviour has knock-on effects. Every MS product is tainted by this because it ultimately has effects on trust. Those kinds of effects are hard to measure and quantify even if they are critically important to the long term success of a company, whereas the revenue from whatever they're doing with this data is directly reflected in their quarterly earnings report.