> Wouldnt data collection become meaningless? Data is used for more than advertising. These data silos are enormous blackmail machines waiting to be activated

> Wouldnt data collection become meaningless? Data is used for more than advertising. These data silos are enormous blackmail machines waiting to be activated. There is tons of evidence of crime, adultery, extortion, and all the other fun things humans get up to in there. Google, FB, and the other big surveillance outfits protect this data now. Who knows what happens tomorrow, or if that protection is "enough", or if $nation_state will grab what's stored in their borders, or... Building these blackmail machines is incredibly dangerous, _even if you completely ignore_ the garden-variety privacy problems they cause for "little people".